skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, some software installs are easier with apt, relative to brew. Also, there is some advantage to having an environment installed on my dev machine with the same package manager as in production.

That said, if you don't mind the overhead, you can achieve a similar outcome running a virtual machine inside of OS X.
BuzzFeed raises $50M from Andreessen Horowitz
One of the most impressive things I can recall seeing from Microsoft in years. Would absolutely love to have this as a cloud service or desktop app.
I just started something similar for javascript a couple days ago: https://github.com/danielstjules/pjs
Check out https://github.com/grosser/pru
> I mean, if it were bush meat I'd suspect it was prepared for the child in which case there would have been a second patient-zero.

Just speculating, but maybe cooking the meat attenuated the virus, and it was only able to take hold in a person with an underdeveloped immune system. Or, maybe, the disease merely progressed faster in the child and so s/he only looks like patient zero, despite the rest of the people eating having gotten infected at the same time.
Microsoft is a minority here and does not have the influence to pull those shenanigans. If IE were to diverge WRT WebGL functionality then it would be the outlier and ignored.

Microsoft needed to join to have an opinion at all.
I thought they'd discovered there wasn't any propellant left in the spacecraft?
As the final section shows, this is more about the question of determinism vs indeterminism. Depending on your particular ontological and epistemological leanings, that question and the question of free will may be the same, or conflating the two may be a category error. I personally fall in the latter camp, but this was an interesting foray into the musings of a brilliant mind.
Vancouver guy here. I work for a media company as a part of a ~60 member software team. The fact is that probably less than ten people in the team are actually from Vancouver. Several of them are people who lived in the US on H1B visas that they couldn't get renewed. They come here "temporarily" but then like the lifestyle and stay.

I totally agree that the messed up US immigration system has benefited us here. I have experience with both immigration systems and the process in Canada was much easier than the US.
It is like when Microsoft released the source code for MS-DOS 2.0 and MS-Word 1.1C not open sourced but some kind of commercial license that limits use and derivatives.

It kind of reminds me of that old Borland Museum that had the old Turbo languages for free download.
http://edn.embarcadero.com/museum

Sadly they stopped releasing old versions in 2005. I had hoped there to be a Delphi 1.0 release. I actually got Delphi 1.0 on a magazine CD-ROM from some UK magazine I bought, and then forgot where I placed it. I used to program in Delphi 1.0 and 2.0 I still got my 2.0 book and how to make code Y2K compatible in it.

I got old Visual BASIC versions as well.

It seems this is the Wolf3D source code without the data files so you have to use the shareware version of Wolf3D or Spear or buy the commercial versions.

It is written for 16 bit code for DOS, so converting it to 32 bits won't work. They had to use a lot of tricks for 386 and under machines just to get it to work in 3D mode. 486+ machines run it better but at a certain level it does not scale very well.

Basically it was a f*-it by ID, just release the code for the LULZ, throw on a commercial license to limit use, and then see what happens to it.
Yeah, but think about how many extra human dishwashers we'd need without automatic dishwashers. Most automation doesn't completely replace humans, it just allows them to be more efficient so less people can do the same amount of work.
I wanted to introduce Sprirographs to some kids, and the only spirograph sets I could find here after a whole day of searching (local malls + online stores) were very simple ones; circular with pin-point holes.

If I could recycle old plastic waste to print interesting spirograph stencils, I would be very very happy.
That might be true, but it's also very likely that the US moved up the value chain and replaced iron and steel exports with other goods.
Yea, sorry about that. I had an initiative to make a windows version, wpy, a little after launch, but couldn't really get any windows developers interested in making it happen. From my time working on windows, I know this tool would be even more valuable there than on unix. I'll try to find a place to indicate this doesn't work. Perhaps there's a good way to check if the system is windows in the setup.py and warn users.
Maybe off-topic, but the rest of the website is a trove of knowledge. As a long-time developer who is now trying to pick up graphics/gaming side of coding ... I'm so glad there are folks generous enough to spend time writing and sharing. Thank you!
Three August MOOCs
Yeah, they say so themselves in the paper:

> "In this work, we were more interested in building a proof- of-concept system rather than optimizing for performance. As a result, our current implementation is slow. It is difficult to measure the exact timings, as we distributed parts of the SfM reconstruction and source selection to multiple machines on a cluster. Table 2 lists an informal summary of our computation times. We expect that substantial speedups are possible by replacing the incremental SfM reconstruction with a real-time SLAM system [Klein and Murray 2009], and finding a faster heuristic for preventing selecting of oc- cluded scene parts in the source selection. We leave these speed-ups to future work."
Yea, I recently started looking at one of those high-demand fields permanent residency programs that Canada offers. Looks pretty inviting and very little hassle as compared to the US immigration.
With the timelapse crowd, "hyperlapse" generally means a timelapse with a moving camera (eg. reddit.com/r/timelapse) . In that sense they are using the term correctly.
After just visiting DEFCON and watching all the teams partake in CTF, this is what I want to learn. This is computing.
The situation its a textbook tragedy of the commons case: crowdfunding platforms like ks and igg make their money from funded projects, they don't make a dime off shipped projects so its in their best interest to have as many projects running on the site as possible.

To make matters worse increased competition has pushed ks' staff to relax their already very relaxed rules, again a sign that their point is to make more from campaign fees.

The problem is that by doing this they are destroying not only their brand but the concept of crowdfunding itself which will affect creators who will no longer be able to access this alternative funding, and users who will miss on the innovations that can only be created through this system because traditional investors are not interested.

The only ones getting out unscratched have to be the con artists who get to walk out with tens of thousands of dollars, and sometimes more. For them it will only be a matter of moving on to their next scam.
Looks like you're right, but it still will be able to collect and send some kind of data in a solar orbit. http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/08/crowd-funded-isee-3-r...
You're going to have a serious problem finding volunteers to work with needles on ebola patients, for obvious reasons.

Then again there are quite a few convalescent health workers now.
So USPTO employees are lying about time spent looking for prior art, among other things. I thought the system was only conceptually flawed, but nope, it's also corrupt throughout.
Hah, good point. This has funded a 10 year, $200-million scientific investigation in mapping and exploration of the Arctic seabed.

Cite: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harper-orders-n...
The title of this article is: "By 2020, you could have an exascale speed-of-light optical computer on your desk"

We might be able to rent one and have access to it remotely. Right now it's still in the theory phase, I'm not sure the author of this article realizes that 2020 is less than 6 years away.
You can fence two adjacent sides, say north and west, and have another fence from the center to the southeast corner. That's 2+(1/sqrt(2))~2.707.

The number I got was from keeping the center to SE corner fence, and finding three straight fences to join the remaining three corners. I assumed these three meet at one point and that the point is on the NW-SE diagonal.
Adding my +1. I left the Valley to come back to Canada, because as awesome as the Valley is, I can't see myself building a life there. As an engineer, getting a visa is much easier than it is for most, but it's still an unnecessary stressor.
I'm not sure about the "demand" angle here. Demand is sorted out at the interview stage on a company-level. Once the position has been filled up, it shouldn't be counted towards demand. Hence it should not be subject to lottery. The fact that US has more job opportunities for foreigners compared to, say, Germany in high-tech only means that industry is more thriving in the former. I doubt jobs are created BECAUSE more people wanna move to the US. And by the way, the job search process itself is partly a lottery - it's never 100% about merits.
On the flip side, it sounds like shooting at higher fps and using this to end up with a 24 or 60 fps result might end up with some cool results.
Actually this is true of any Crowdfunded project.

Always crunch the numbers and do a feasibility report before you decide to crowdfund it.

This is why 90% of Startups fail as well, they focus on making the product but they fail to plan ahead and make sure that the costs aren't higher than the investment money and figure in salaries, taxes, fees, etc.
blank page, but when I view source, its showing up markup
I think you misunderstood my point about YC and Google -- they would not exist without their foreign born founders. If you think the existence of Google is only of tenuous benefit to others, then I don't know what to say :)
Dave Jones is great.

If anyone has a Nintendo 64 languishing in a dusty closet, we'd love to have an annotated teardown guide added to TakeitApart[1].

1. https://www.takeitapart.com
Might be me, but it won't load in latest Firefox. Bunch of blocked Cross-Origin requests for font files and in the end:

> ReferenceError: ga is not defined
I think what NeilSmithline is trying to say is, the microsoft technology is designed to convert regular 24fps videos to 2.4fps videos (10x time lapse). If you feed it 1 sec timelapse photos (ie, video at 1fps), the output would be 0.1fps.
What's your definition of sane? None of those countries have the scale, frequency and volume of demand that resembles anything like the US.[1]

> Contrast that with how things work in the US (which I don't have time to get into in an HN comment), and you'll see why it deserves to be singled out for this.

I don't think anyone is questioning that other countries have much more lax policies. The question is what is your solution?

As someone who is a US citizen, held visas in Germany/UK, and has a Belgian technical co-founder trying to get the US, I understand this situation very well. But I simply can't sympathize with people who simply say "Why can't they just let me! It works elsewhere!" and offer no real solution that takes into consideration anything other than a "why not me" attitude.

[1] - http://247wallst.com/special-report/2013/09/25/countries-wit...
I'm not seeing how BuzzFeed is adopting new technology nor how adopting new technology is what journalism needs.

I see BuzzFeed as a company that's found a way to exploit people's pull towards instant gratification. But it serves a terrible purpose which has short term benefits for the company but little benefit for others.

They're similar to payday loan companies. Many argue that they're meeting a market need. They maybe but they're doing it in an exploitative way. That's bad for everyone.
Is that Borland C++ compiler also in the public domain? It was cool that he provides it but it made me wonder if it was ever released like that.
I don't know about all that quantum math craziness or that spin fin twin nonsense but it sounds like Conway shares a long standing sentiment I've had that "free will" is a story we tell ourselves because we want to believe our choices are based on something fundamentally more complex or important than the choices of an animal or a computer. Even if "free will" is a real thing and not just an illusion, what is it really but random in-deterministic variations, or what Conway called whims.

I remember when I voiced these opinions in my college philosophy class to a room full of denialists. It's good to know I'm not alone in my thinking in a world where multi-verse and string theory are sooner accepted than the fact that free will is an illusion.
BuzzFeed readers are happy. You can feel bad for consumers only when a traditional news outlet turns into a BuzzFeed. I guess the ones that handle that transition delicately will survive.
Bosons have a wonderful advantage over fermions. Whereas electrons cannot occupy the same space at the same time, photons will happily overlap. So, speaking in broad strokes here, optical computers can certainly have a higher computational/informational density. However, Optalysys's marketing is disingenuous when they use the phrases like "computing at the speed of light." Present day electron based CPUs already compute at the speed of light!

In other words, an optical computer cannot move data from one point to another any faster than a traditional computer. The latency is the same no matter what you're computing with.

However, the ability of optical computers to have a higher computing density (computations per area of space) may negate that issue. Whatever the optical equivalent of RAM would be, it can be theoretically smaller, and thus help to relieve some of the latency issue.

Also interesting about optical computers is that they can perform convolutions for "free". Present day computers are abysmal at convolutions. This is helpful to image processing, graphics rendering, and neural networks.
> I believe that much of America's success is rooted in having an open and inclusive culture that attracts smart, ambitious, and determined people from around the world who come here and pursue their dreams.

Agreed. But who decides who fits that criteria [smart, ambitious, and determined people]?

Today - it's money and tomorrow it'll be the same.
Just curious, what would you have done to fix the root issue -- handling a large number of H1B requests?

One answer is well why should there be a cap. Well there is a cap and one reason is probably because opening the gates wide open will skew the job market in US. For better or for worse it is hard to say but if you ask those in US they might say for worse.

So there is a cap. (And obviously it is being pushed against, there is demand, you wanted to work for Apple, others want to work for other companies and so on). So how to you fix the problem?

I can see these things as possible solutions:

1) First come first serve. That would be interesting, each year on a midnight of a particular date. Some server or some office in DC will will swamped with thousands of instantaneous requests. In less than 1 second it will all be over. Those with servers closer to the facility or those that have better synchronized clocks will win. Or put everyone in a long queue maybe and just wait year to year. Watch the queue extend for decades.

2) Make it an auction. So now each spot initially costs some processing fee to handle. Then well do first come first serve but increase the fee according to the demand. Maybe it takes $2k for initial spot. And $200k for last available.

> Since the job required me to be in Cupertino, the deal simply fell through.

Shouldn't you also blame Apple here too, at least just a bit. Presumably if there is this huge talent pool abroad they would at least consider opening an office in EU or let you work remotely in some capacity. Tech sector is interesting because that becomes possible (and has been done). I don't quite understand their position either. Here is a global company that they found a top person they want to join their team but well, they can't win some stupid lottery. Well fuck it, maybe they can do something more than just drop the deal? Wondering, what are you thoughts on Apple's position?
Personally I thought the climbing video was breathtaking. With a decent film crew it could be an absolutely breathtaking scene in a climbing film.
In addition to the criticisms raised by others (the most important of which is significance!), I'd add that the dots are a poor way to demonstrate the pay gap. People are notoriously bad at estimating area, particularly when the variance is so small. The only reason pie charts are acceptable is that you double encode the metric in area and central angle.

Here you are trying to demonstrate the ratio between two values: the average pay of women versus men. However, the dimension encoding this metric is overall area, so the fact that this is a ratio is obscured. Perhaps worse, the areas are misleading: WY pays its women 37% less than men, yet the dot is barely visible, far smaller than 63% of the area of the circle (which would be the intuitive explanation); likewise, it looks (on the scale to the right) that even 100% pay equality is represented by an incomplete circle.

Also, it looks like you're plotting DC but it's basically impossible to click on to see the data; for that matter RI, CT and MA are pretty hard to deal with.

It seems like you're using a force-based layout for the charts, which I take to mean that the states aren't accurately placed. Please don't move data points around to suit aesthetic concerns.

Okay, enough negativity, some positives. I quite like the scales to the right. Some may complain about the animation, but I think that's valuable object constancy in action. It makes it quite intuitive what's happening when rolling over the various states. I also like the use of left/right to represent the political lean.

However: it isn't at all clear where the ends of the scales are and why they were chosen. The arrowhead makes estimating the length of the political lean bars difficult. The fact that they are offset by the width of the circle makes comparison around the middle impossible, and comparison elsewhere hard.

Is this data geographically related? If not, a choropleth is probably not the right solution. The fact that you're charting state-based data is not enough to justify a geographical representation.

EDIT: the most important aspect of a data visualization is the message. Don't just try to make something pretty: think long and hard about what you are trying to convey. And add text! An explanation is required to make an interesting visualization comprehensible. If a visualization is completely understandable without an iota of text, the message is probably entirely obvious without the visualization.
There exists a sweet spot in prices where if the book sells for less, it sells more copies and then brings in more revenue.

Amazon's Kindle model charges a percentage of each sale, so it is in their best interests to price books lower so that they will earn more income. The Kindle store does not make very much money, in fact Amazon does not make much money from selling things because they sell them as cheap as they can almost at cost or in some cases below costs like their Kindle tablets. They try to make up the selling tablets at a loss by income from Kindle and Amazon Market Appstore Android app sales.

We've already seen a price war on mobile apps going as low as 99 cents and in some cases free with in-app purchases or a freemium model. Ebooks are heading that way as well.

Walmart does this, lower the price and make it up by selling in large numbers. Get people into their store for the low prices and then sell them more things when they are in the store. At Amazon a person can buy a Kindle book and then buy a few more books or go buy some products from the Amazon store or pay for a Prime membership to watch videos, etc.
So you're saying the world can be deterministic and you can still have free will? That would mean you would have to believe in something like souls then, right? Something outside of this physical world that influences your physical existence? I'm not questioning your views just trying to understand.
nostalgic :'-(
Both JAL and ANA have stopped flying 747s, as of earlier this year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/business/international/bid...
I currently have a 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display running OS X Yosemite. I also have a Thunderbolt Display (27-inch).

I wish I could buy an open hardware laptop similar to the Novena laptop (https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop), but made more for software developers. It would look like a Macbook Pro but have official support for Linux. It would have a 256GB SSD drive, a 64-bit ARM processor, 16GB of RAM, a 15-inch Retina display (touchscreen), wifi 802.11ac, USB 3.0, Bluetooth 4.0, stereo speakers, headphone port, SD card reader, HDMI, microphone and a webcam. My budget would be as much as $3000. I would install Ubuntu 14.04 on it (ideally it would be officially supported and even pre-installed).

I've seen rumors of a new MacBook Air with Retina display, a touchscreen and an ARM processor in mid-2015. It will probably be my next laptop unless someone starts a crowdfunding for an open hardware laptop.

I also have a Chromebook Pixel from I/O 13 but I wish Google would release a new version that's more polished and with better specs. It's actually a fantastic laptop.
Ebola is nothing new. If terrorists wanted to use it as a weapon, they could have done it a long time ago. Now would actually be a bad time for a bioterror attack, because people are on high alert for anything that could be ebola. It would be a lot more effective if it came out of the blue, giving it time to spread before anyone realized their fever was actually ebola.
Whatever land is not claimed by Canada will be snapped up by Russia, and I'd place more faith in Canadian environmental standards than Russian ones. Yes, I know the protestors down in the U.S. are fond of telling us how evil Canada is and how environmentally destructive the country is, but the truth is that there is absolutely nothing in Canada, even the oil sands, that compares to places in Russia like Norilsk.
No, you're just really young. Something tells me your "damn long time ago" was like just 10 years ago or something.
What is better than using React's one-way reactive dataflow? Well, just run everything in a continuous loop!
Historically, Microsoft Research has been very disconnected from Microsoft corporate and don't position/frame their work in terms of a profit motive. Their work sometimes influences or filters its way into Microsoft products, but I've never seen them do anything like what you're suggesting.
Probably, Microsoft ICE is another amazing piece of software from MS Research that they've released and kept updated over the years.
I've flown the NYC -> SIN route on Singapore Air a few times a year for a long time. When they upgraded the route to the A380, it changed a lot about that long haul experience. All things being equal (crew, airline, route, etc), this plane is so much more comfortable for long haul trips. Even economy class. As stupid as it sounds, it feels more like a sky ship than a plane. You can sort of forget you're on a plane.

I'd actually prefer NOT to fly one on a local route, though. Too much of a hassle boarding 400 people for a short flights.
- B.C.'s tech industry has many exploitative employers
- B.C.'s tech market is underpayed, below national average.
- B.C.'s living cost on average exceeds the average salary.
- B.C.'s high real estate cost results in many house poor population.
- B.C.'s political party places far more labor rights on nurses and people cutting down trees.
- B.C. has a problem of bleeding talent to other provinces because of above reasons.

Source: I live here.
Calca, too. The awk script should do if you want something simpler, but I'd recommend either Soulver or Calca for their extra features.