skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is fascinating inside view of Apple's culture and the TV remote example given is why Google TV flopped and Apple TV sells well (although way less compared to their i-products). The article depicts a picture of Apple's design centric culture where even engineers think top-down by starting with user interface/experience and then towards the technical implementation. This shows in their products.
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Framed Data (YC W14) is looking for engineers
Someone above mentioned the processing took weeks. So.. I'm not sure that would work.
Intel snared in $6B Israel divestiture hoax
By "higher level" do you mean people who can convince others to do things? That seems to me to be the last higher paid/skill position that will remain for some time. Which causes me to fear that all we will be left with is aggressive sales people and business owners.
What about gravity waves in spacetime? Now you're getting into star trek technology.
I've got my Atari Portfolio still loaded up with Turbo C .. 384k. Its enough for everyone. ;)
My "Internet of Things" concept is a BT/WiFi appliance power monitor... would be able to detect whenever power usage changed.

Use case: you get a push notification when the dishwasher/washing machine/dryer/etc finished.

Thoughts?
The Problem With Email
Yeah, the mistake of referring to Africa as a single nation is unfortunately common in the U.S., made by everyone from from leading Republican politicians to, more sadly, Clayton Kershaw.

[1] http://www.africaisacontinent.com/common-mistake

[2] http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20101220&content_id=...
Where are you mining these passwords from? Private intranets? Cloud services?
> We believe algorithmic trading is simple

Trading might be simple but being profitable definitely is not.
As others have commented, the videos look great, and much closer to how people remember journeys. However, there appear to be some image persistence problems (many street poles simply dissolve as they get closer to the camera).

I'm curious to see what happens if they insert more action-packed footage. An MTB course with trees, switchbacks, and jumps would be an interesting stress test of this technique.
Clever solution - technically. For trips with my friends we use a "money-pot" system where everyone pays a fixed amount into a pot before the trip and everything we do or buy together is paid out of this pot. After the trip the calculation is much easier - refund = (remaining amount / persons) ;-)
New indexed files by google every day.
Scraper for Twitter embedded timelines
It's not so bad if you spend some of that time raising children :)
Of course it closes down the market. There won't even be a market. There is not going to be a plugin interface (except for Firefox) to provide a different Restriction module.
We're at 32,809 LOC in an app we're working on (although that includes tests and the Grunt build system). We operate at scale, and there's a lot of revenue at stake.

To me, a huge part of Angular is the tools that it provides you to organize your code. But you have to have discipline and good practices to keep things organized. It's not RoR. If you do abide by best practices, then it's a pretty good experience IMHO.

We're also using Backbone for our model layer, thinly wrapped in Angular to use $http and make it injectable. Backbone's collections & models are way nicer than anything else currently available in the Angular ecosystem.

Angular 2.0's roadmap looks like it will finally change that, delivering a modular "offline-first" model layer that sounds really kick-ass.

tl:dr; go for it
My thoughts exactly - basically a immigration system for the Fortune 500.
I'm very impressed. That is the shortest version of expense calculation I've ever seen.

I have written a python script back in 2007 for calculating two trips expenses: https://github.com/bernardeli/trip_money_organizer

I'm not a Python developer myself, however I was pretty happy with the result. I know it works fine, and have used few times with no issues.
The monopoly of an open standard? What's wrong with you?
Apple and Hamburgers
It seems that Coverity[0] is offering free static analysis to open source projects. Even if it is a marketing move, it will benefit the open source ecosystem in the long run. You'll waste some time analyzing false positive defects, the handful of critical/security error found make it worth it in my opinion. Notably the duplicate "goto fail" in one of the recent apple vulnerability should have triggered the dead code detection.

[0] https://scan.coverity.com/
What is meant by "selling the conference?" Giving out the slides? the rights to diffuse it? Exclusivity?
I think you gave the game away right there. From an ethical point of view, if you can index these files, you can also automate contacting the site owners. Yes, users should use better passwords, but there is also an onus on system admins to at least TRY and keep information secure.
In terms of immigrants as a percentage of population the US is nothing special. Canada has a lot more (closer to 19% instead of 14%). Many European countries have statistics similar to that of the US (Sweden has a bit more, the UK a bit less, etc).

But I digress. The problem with the existing system is that it is insane and a waste of resources. One has to get a lawyer and wait for a long time with no certainty in the outcome while dealing with an extremely opaque bureaucracy where anything can go wrong at any time.

This has nothing at all to do with volume. Indeed, a simpler more streamlined and less opaque system would help with volume.

Say a system like the Canadian or the UK one. There's a point scale. You can compute the number of points you get ahead of time, now there's a simple web form actually. If you cross the threshold you will get in. There are known wait times, you can just call the embassy. There are points for things the country needs (particular jobs), for certain qualifications (degrees, etc), for language proficiency, some regional tweaks, family, and having an employment offer.

And extremely importantly. You get permanent resident status (green card), not an H1B. What Americans don't realize is that you want to hand out green cards. H1B lower both your salaries and ours. The H1B restricts immigrant mobility, can't move to a better job and raise the average salary, and encourages people to go home with all of their newly gained knowledge and money.

I'll give you a personal example of the difference between a sane and an insane system:

As an 11 year old I filled out all of our Canadian immigration paperwork (my parents checked it but it was correct and they didn't change it). We knew we would get in based on our points. The embassy told us the timeframe in which we should expect our paperwork to go through. It went through a bit early. We moved to Canada.

Now for the US. As a near-30-year old with a US PhD working at a top research institution I have to pay a specialized law firm several thousand dollars, spend weeks getting paperwork, bugging people in several countries to write absurd letters, building a case, etc. All of this to basically the same thing. And in the end, who knows what will happen because there are no standards, no appeal, no one to discuss anything with. Oh, and I have no idea what the processing time is.

So no. It is not an issue of "why can't they just let me in". It's a system that hurts your salary by restricting my mobility, hurts me by making me pay lawyers needlessly, hurts the image of the US by creating disgruntled people, and hurts the economy by routing business and increasingly prestigious conferences elsewhere. It just makes no sense.
I have also been convinced to start learning clojure. Also on the hn posting thread, a company called fracture had a relatively interesting job application, and if the kind of people who write clojure write tongue in cheek shit like then I want to start learning.
Want to learn how to be a six figure affiliate?
David MacKay's "Without Hot Air" is an excellent investigation of what needs to be done to power the UK.
http://www.withouthotair.com/
How will this work in an unfixed domain? A domain with no walls, as some of their visualisations seem to use the walls to generate the field.
It seems like "worldwide height distribution for [healthy children of] their age and sex" would have been clearer phrasing. Either way, the ambiguity does not discredit the article's findings.
As someone who grew up in Montreal, and moved to Silicon Valley, one of the appeals of SV is the weather. Montreal winters are long, cold, and dark. These are not conditions everyone wants to live in. Additionally, the Office De La Langue Francaise will make the life of any English company a nightmare. To top it all off, taxes in Quebec are absurdly high (especially considering the quality of social services). So while Montreal is a great city, I think it would be a poor choice for a YC office.
Nice talking points, both of you. However, neither of you are actually addressing how to design the immigration system to function as a positive-sum game for both Americans and immigrants.

This is a discussion that needs to be had, because the current immigration system is tilted, like so much else about USAian government right now, towards "give the capitalists whatever they need and if everyone else survives that's good".

For instance, as I proposed upthread, if the H1B system was really about bringing in high-skill workers to fill shortages, visa allocation would go by auction, with the bids being proposed salaries. For N visas, the N proposed jobs for immigrants with the highest salaries get the visas, and the salaries are then legally binding.

This design is absolutely nothing like the current H1-B system, which is why most of the top users of H1-B visas are Indian outsourcing firms.
"...the same spoons you can buy for 80c... if you live next to Walmart."

So, Walmart is the only world provider of 80c plastic spoons ?

Let´s be serious, unless you live in the middle of a jungle or a desert (in which case you´ll probably value more a reusable metal spoon over a 3D-printed one), you´ll rarely be less that 30min drive from a supermarket or convenience store (to which you´ll need to go anyway to buy some definitely non-3d-printable-yet food) that will probably have what you are looking for.

Even if your reasoning is sound, I believe your situation it's kind of an exception, most people live "next to Walmart", so it´s hard to think about it as a killer application.
> Only then will one have made a case for free will.

That's why it's generally considered to be an open question.

You, on the other hand, haven't nearly made a case against free will, but still act as if you had definitive proof.

This is not a situation where the free will advocates have to prove it to you, and unless they can, you win.
It doesn't take a year for spouses through USCIS. More like a few months.
Yep, well like I said it's no huge secret and the code I wrote is really basic. So you think the only thing I should do is just automate contacting the site owners with the link to the sensible files that have been indexed?
They are not reflected. Let's say someone dad's name is David, when he tags @dad the tag would read 'david'.
I'm using Xymon ( example: https://www.xymon.com/servers/servers.html ). I found it didn't take much work to add a client to the monitor and the default set of reports was enough.

There's supposed to be an OSX client, but I haven't used it.
Sorry, I must have read something wrong somewhere, thought it wasn't dual intent.
Was the other longer video also from Hamburg? For a moment I thought it was Berlin.
I don't even get what the scope does.. dows it like aitomatically adjust for range?
This is a great start-up idea, no? Your service shoots some kind of notifications (read, emails) to the owners of the accounts with poor passwords.
When you are sure your emails are read, you start appending ads to your notifications :)
Call it what you want but the end result is obvious: I cannot use anything but HTML to build a browser-based GUI. It already killed the Flash and Silverlight. It is slowly spreading the metastases into mobile and desktop as well.
There are several problems with author's argument.

1. Future outcomes are not entirely determined by just past state + laws of physics. There is a very important component that author seems to be only eluding fleetingly: Randomness. So future = past + laws + randomness. Here laws are implicitly understood to be probabilistic that requires some randomness source.

2. An all important question now is this: What is the source of randomness in universe? I think if we can answer this question, we will likely have understood pretty much everything that is to be understood about the universe. A perfect random generator is theoretically required to store infinite amount of information. If universe is finite in the sense that (space X time) is finite then perfect true randomness is not possible. BTW, concept of true randomness is not some fuzzy thing. It's very well defined mathematically (see Vol II by Knuth). Summary: Let's say a random number generator produced a sequence of 0s and 1s. The perfectness of RNG can be measured by the distribution of every possible permutation of all length of 0s and 1s occurring in that sequence.

3. Let's say universe has some master random number generator that sources randomness in to all its outcomes. Is it possible to add or subtract randomness from this generator? Can processes or particles within universe themselves be source of randomness? If so these particles or processes would meet the definition of free will. In other words, free will is nothing but random number generator itself because no one can predict or influence its behavior.

So in essence, our question becomes can humans be source of randomness?. As humans are made of same fundamental particles, it would imply, if humans have free will then particles must also have free will (i.e. Convey's Free Will Theorem). The difference that humans make over fundamental particles is this: Humans can filter their free will by setting up complex set of computation on the top of it. So imagine normal particles simply generating random behavior while humans acting as some algorithm like hash function that sets up the computation on the top of their "free will" to generate probabilistically desired outcome. Obviously keyword here is desired. Are our desires simply deterministic or influenced by free will? Our desire to survive is obviously programmed by genes. However our desire to climb a mountain because its there or draw a painting is probably much more influenced by free will.
Here's the (naturally biased) source for that, taken from the article's comments:

http://www.timessquarenyc.org/do-business-here/market-facts/...
I keep hearing ridiculously good things about laracasts.com which might be worth checking out as well.
You might have to be somewhat selective though. Don't tell them that you can or have mined the passwords (some of them might decide that you 'hacked' them). Maybe point out that potentially sensitive files are popping up on google, and try and look as dumb as possible. Don't let on that you're automating this in any way. Having said that, I'm sure that there will be a number of admins and users that will be extremely grateful for this!

I've sent similar emails in the past, and where you don't always get a reply spouting thanks (or a reply at all), you will likely notice the file not being available anymore.
In a similar vein, here is Lua 5.2 being compiled with Turbo C 1.0 (impressive that software written in 2013 compiles unmodified on a 1990 compiler!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jvLY5pUwic
Depends where they come from. The average Python or Perl library seems better written and more tested that something I would write myself. JavaScript seems to have a lot less quality in my experience.
the demo looks fun: http://fian.my.id/marka

Wondering, what type of apps would you need this?
Could this be used together with SnapSVG?
The PVS-Studio team also does a great job: http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0084/
well i did think about automating email notifications to warn users (but nothing ad-related though :). i'm not sure i wouldn't end up in the spam folder every time though!
Test the hell out of anything you use, both hardware, software, and infrastructure -- and write the tests before you write any code. Double-down on that for stuff like medical tech.

Now, is anybody doing that? Anybody? (Sound of crickets chirping)
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Journalism may not be a "technology" per se, but like technology it's a means to an end (the civic and moral purpose), NOT the end itself - although you could be excused for confusing the two, considering the pompousness with which the trade toasts itself.
Works after a re-login. Very nice!! Two final questions:

1. Does the API allow writing an algorithm that deals with more than one instrument?

2. Thought about including Bitcoin?
>One of the factors evaluated for h1b approval is whether or not the immigrant's salary is higher than the mean wages for U.S. citizens working in the same SOC category in the same area.

You can make many valid arguments for loosening the American immigration laws; but driving up the average wage because that's what the government mandate assumes that companies are irrational. A profit-maximizing company is only going to hire a H1B if they are cheaper than a US citizen per unit work.

(You could make an argument that increased immigration drives up wages by generally increasing economic activity in the destination country, sure... but that's a rather different argument.)
Which language wins in terms of salary/demand (July 2014)
What about the middle class thing where EVERYONE thinks they're middle class? If you ask some one who makes 30k they'll say they're middle class. If you ask some one who makes 130k they'll say the same thing.
>If the Internet had to ensure housing, food, and transportation would be available for every participant, we would be a lot more selective about granting access.

Unfortunately, the US doesn't ensure anything at all for its own citizens, other than their God-given right to accumulate capital in unlimited amounts.
That sounds like a good idea. How would you deal with files indexed on places where there is no organization behind?
The idea that free will is compatible with determinism (this position is called, shockingly, compatibilism) is actually the most popular view in the philosophical debate about free will, and has nothing to do with mind-body dualism.

Some ways folks have tried to defend compatibilism (see http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/ for discussion of what follows): motivating the idea that free will is grounded on choice on the basis of one's desires, or on choice that makes sense given one's values. There are other ways, linked to the idea of it being possible that you had chosen otherwise, and on a metaphysics of modality (i.e., of what it is for something to be possible, or necessary) compatible with determinism.
Not my problem with Email. I see one problem with Email in the need of everyone to find _the problem_ with Email. Most often the problem described is not with Email but a culture created around the tool that the person has an issue with.
I think a lot of users is and always will be clueless. Back in the days of dialup, with some ISPs it wasn't uncommon for those machines to be directly connected to the internet (rather than through a NATting router). It was AMAZING the stuff you could find by looking for (example) \users, or \documents.
Typically you test your software to your needs. If there's a bug in a library you use it would show up when testing your code that uses the library.
why US only?
It depends on how much effort you want to go through. You could do a whois on the IP/domain, and contact the registered owner (if the information is available).
We have this problem. We have a large, mostly-Java game for Android. It won't run on gingerbread, because we just have too much code.

While the official solution looks quite brief, retrofitting it is a nightmare. Unless Facebook got around to rewriting everything again, I can understand why they'd do it their way.
The South African Indian population has, apart from easily distinguished recent migrants, been in the country for 100+ years, and is relatively large (more than 1 million people). Due to apartheid, assimilation was limited, and the population was drawn from all over India. It would make an interesting comparison group, matched for socioeconomic status. If the pattern persisted in South Africa, then further research would be needed - South African Indians generally rely on pensions/savings to support them in old age.
I'd like to clear up your terminology a little bit, since the way you use "on demand" actually means two different use-cases. You're referring to "spinning reserve" versus "on-demand" sources of power.

"Spinning reserves" are plants that we keep online in a "ready" state, but disconnected from the grid until we need them. "Spinning reserves" are kept online in the case of a failure elsewhere on the grid, or to adapt to load changes throughout the day. These plants are cost-effective for this use case.

"On-demand" facilities are plants that have very fast spin-up time, and so they can be brought "online" from a powered-off very quickly. These kinds of plants are also cost-effective to cycle between both states.

Natural Gas Combustion Turbines happen to have fast startup time (fast=minutes), and are cost efficient to keep running, so they're used on the grid for both "on demand" and "spinning reserve applications", as it's cheap to cycle them between both states and cheap to keep them spinning (as long as natural gas is cheap). Even better "on demand" sources of power are batteries, since they can be flipped on/off the grid like a lightswitch, but I digress.

Nuclear power plants, on the other hand, are awful for "on demand" applications since they take many days, weeks or months to fully power on/power off, and it costs a lot of money to do so. But, they are good as "spinning reserve" facilities, since they produce very cheap electricity once they are online.
Take a look at the August 1985 issue of Cosmopolitan and see how tired they are of the formula. The Chilling Lure of Cocaine - Could You Be Hooked? The Bottom Line on Office Sex. 25 Ways To Ignite A Love Affair.

Seriously, all real titles from one month picked at random.
Companies would have a problem with this system because H1B is ostensibly about high-skilled workers who would be paid loads of money anyway, but as the statistics show, like most everything else involving employment and American state policy, it's actually about keeping labor cheap.
It is easy to ramp Natural Gas electricity generation, making it suitable for on demand power (known as peakers), but the same is emphatically NOT true for nuclear (known as a base load source) - which produces a steady output and is very hard to turn up and down (similar to coal).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit... can be used as an alternative form of on demand form of power. This is already being done in Michigan and Virginia.

Solar and wind power would substitute baseload power (provided by nuclear plants) and solar and wind power transferred to pumped storage could substitute peaker plants.

The latter is not particularly efficient, but when you consider that solar and wind are dirt cheap these days, it still makes more sense to do that than use natural gas as peaker.

> Given that 40.8% of California's electricity currently comes from natural gas, it's clear that anyone plugging their EV's into California's grid is doing the environment no favors.

Actually, this isn't true at all. Only in Virginia & China and other coal-intensive regions is an electric car more polluting than a gas-guzzler.
Well, if there is an award for the library name that is hardest to get Google results for this one is a contender.