skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have a giant pile of cash and a bunch of smart people, it may be a good strategy to try to get into as many high volume businesses as you can, shooting for the 1% chance you make a breakthrough on cost reductions in any one of those. You'd suddenly own that industry and mint a fortune in a short period of time. Maybe this is a field bet.

Or maybe Bezos is slightly delusional. I'm not ruling out either possibility.
Its really simple technology...

1. Brighter projectors.

2. The common technique called projector stacking. You'll see it in large outdoor events and more sophisticated projected mapped productions such as in theaters and fashion shows.

These stacks (which may not only be vertical in nature) automatically can adjust the projection for the offset of each projector so that everything lines up at the destination.
Taskworker: A simple distributed task queueing system
http://engblog.nextdoor.com/post/94655747794/nextdoor-taskworker-simple-efficient-scalable

It's about to be open sourced as well.
No it's not, most of his work was developed in France because here in Brazil we don't give anything about science.
Originally from SF area, I have been living in Tokyo for over a year now, and since moving I rarely speak with native English speakers anymore. I've been told by friends and family on occasion my accent and grammar is slowly deteriorating.
This discussion of Ebola is simply degenerating into the the usual prejudices about Africa and African people, masquerading as informed speculating and I'm finding it very irritating..

I want to ask a few questions here:

1. Is there any recorded instance of the particular strain of Ebola in West Africa being transmitted from a bat or another forest animal to a human being?

2. Has that that strain of Ebola virus been found in any bats or other animals in the infected areas?

3. Is there some hard knowledge about the migratory patterns of bats or some other forest creatures to indicate that they have been able to carry the virus all the way from Central Africa to the far end of West Africa without infecting any other people of animals in between?

Why don't people check these facts before they start blaming everything on African backwardness, cultural practices and beliefs? Instead all we have is innuendo from so called experts maligning Africans and ignoring the most likely fact.

This Ebola outbreak was most likely transmitted by humans of which there are two kinds.

1. People who got infected with the disease or harboured a strain of it from Central Africa, travelled to West Africa and infected someone people there. But it doesn't explain how those people did not infect any locals or trigger an outbreak at the source before leaving for West Africa.

2. Researchers who have access to the virus and through carelessness or otherwise managed to infect West Africans with it, said researchers being mainly Westerners working for state institutions, universities or corporations with access to the virus.

Unless there is hard evidence explaining how some animals infect with Ebola travelled over a 1000 miles without infecting whole areas in between whether animals or humans, the search for its origin must focus on the most likely cause, and that means human beings.

If some angry West Africans are attacking western medical personnel in the belief that they are the source of the Ebola virus, they are quite logical in doing so, as Western medical personnel and researchers are the visible common link between the presence of Ebola in Central Africa and West Africa.

This comment may not be focused on how the outbreak may be contained, but it needs to get out there.
I've been blind in my left eye since birth and kids often asked me what I saw, assuming that it was just blackness. In my case if you shine a flashlight in my left eye at the right angle I can see a flash of color, but otherwise there's just no perception at all.

It's probably worth clarifying what we mean by blind. The article and the parent comment are talking about having no light perception at all. However, many (I think most) people who are considered legally blind do have at least some light perception. The legal standard in the US is vision that can be corrected to at best 20/200 in the better eye.
You say meeting minutes made useful but the header on the website is "Succinct Team Messaging." I actually didn't see anything that looked like meeting minutes presented anywhere.

Was hoping this would take minutes from Word as 95% of secretaries will use, somehow extract action items, and then help communicate/track them.

Everything shown here I would just use email to manange. It's not outdated, it works and it's an LCD. I run a small nonprofit organization and was hoping this might be helpful because action item followup is a pain point. But I wouldn't use this.
Show HN: Heard is a living, breathing, social exchange
I can put you in contact with a friend who works with me at Facebook with a wife and (slightly older than toddler) kids if you would like to talk to someone. My contact details are on my user page.

Your recruiter can do the same thing, of course.

My personal advice:

You control how much time you spend at work and doing work at home. I've gone through periods of being very careful of not doing more than ~40 hours a week of work, and also taking advantage of the ability to work from home some of the time. I've also gone through periods of doing much more than that, because I chose to. I am confident I would not be looked upon differently not having done so.

When you choose your team after Bootcamp, make sure you are clear with your manager on how you want to work. (Feel free to reach out to me after you start - my unixname is nbm.)
Flynn.io needs to fight for the user experience... no docs = poor UX
There's a small version that goes on your ankle, called a North Paw. Get directions or order a kit here http://sensebridge.net/projects/northpaw/
Your webpage doesn't render properly in Safari:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/753xgwjhvbb1ml7/Screenshot%202014-...
In recent years a few people (myself included) have tried again to inject the use of DNS service records into the HTTP/2 effort and have been consistently knocked back by the authors. Last I looked, the new standard was studiously burying its head in the sand and avoiding mentioning lower-layer resolution issues at all, as though things like dual-stack IP, port number variation or the zone-apex issue were Somebody Else's Problem. Whilst I think they are glaring UX issues for HTTP clients that arise directly from the continuing and mistaken default of resolving address records.

Of course what we get instead is unspecified and even conflicting* behaviour, which I think just stinks. Many other standards have managed to get it together by specifying the use of SRV. I gave up trying to change the entrenched positions.

* there is language in the draft that advises against multiple connections, conflicting with the current "Happy Eyeballs" dual-stack resolution workaround.
This reminded me of the language of the Guugu Yimithirr [1] who always describe left/right/forward/back with cardinal directions. Thus, they always have a great sense of direction, and know where north is, even indoors. In that case, it's like the vibrating belt is built into the language.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html...
The Americans I knew when I lived overseas for three years (on each of two stays that long) definitely had trouble with vocabulary retrieval, the more trouble the longer they had been away from native speakers of English. Correspondingly, Chinese people I know who have been away from places with lots of Chinese printed text often have a lot of trouble writing Chinese characters that everyone learns in school. Even "overlearned" skills that become second nature can degrade through lack of continued practice.
I'm willing to wager 0.3 BTC that Satoshi is and has always been one person.

I'll also wager 0.05 BTC that he's male, lives in the US, and is currently under 40.
A blind person once explained it to me:

> I see what sighted people describe as "white". When I ask a sighted person what they see out of their elbow they typically get it. They see "nothing", but if pressed will usually say "static" or "white".
Snowden and the American flag: His first big PR blunder?
Werewolf: A Party Game for Devious People (great for team building)
using a bad hash function?
Chart Shows Why Slack Is Called One Of The Most Viral Enterprise Apps Ever
Why Python is the Last Language You'll Have To Learn
I'd bet 0.05 BTC he is over 40.
Develop against real production data, without violating your users' privacy
4 Insights from Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto on Programming
Well, he got into one of the better hospitals by the looks of it, I am sure there are many.
I'm surprised he was not billed, from what I read on wall posters in hospitals non-residents (or non-EU?) are charged for medical services.

Unfortunately had my share of landings in E&A and I was less than impressed.
Generally bad/old looking buildings and rooms, not the most skilled staff - some of them were struggling to speak English, long waiting times (my record is 5h).

On the other hand many of the people working in the NHS are literally life saving heroes, so they deserve our respect. Any country on this planet that does not have a similar system can't call itself civilised. Luckily most of Europe has this in some form or another.

This is not to say that things can't be improved.

NHS could probably run 2 times better on half the money it currently spends; I think efficiency is FAR from being their strong point. At this size it takes a special kind of management to do stuff without huge waste - perhaps Toyota can lend a hand here.[1] :-)

[1] - http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-26/work-efficie... etc
A data journalism platform, does this cut it?
I have exotropia on one eye and completely lack binocular vision.

My right eye is my "main" eye (95%) and my left eye just submits the missing parts from the left that my right can't see because of the nose being in-between.

I always have the right side of my nose in my field of view, except that at the same time it's somehow not there. Like 50% opacity. The left side of my nose isn't visible.

When I "hide" a finger behind my nose for the right eye and look in it's direction it's gone. When I stare straight forward, it appears again.

(My) vision is weird :).
Bear in mind that your effective tax rate is very different at $120k than at $70k.
I'd put this at pretty unlikely - I suspect the early experiment was never expected to take off anywhere close to what it has and so the foresight of doing this probably overlooked.
identity-mapping means fragmentation.

each file is processed by reading the whole thing. Freed memory chucks can only be reused for the same size.

when you make a distribution, you go through 700 files and load them into maybe 6K pieces and fragments stuff.

----

The good news is -- it is exclusively 64-bit and every single 64-bit machine has 512Meg and up.

what's it to you, nigger?
I'm somewhat surprised that Crunchbase is not on here...
Where’d the Nose Go? Your sense of smell and how to protect it
Not only did this break my back button, it brought up a literally never ending stream of "Leave this Page" popups and I had to process kill the tab. Solid.
I appreciate the article and data, had a couple of thoughts from my own experience localizing:

* Punting on localization can make a lot of sense. It helps to do localization up front and plan for it, but that's when opportunity cost is at its greatest. It's also a marginal "multiplier" effect, and so it's not a make-or-break engineering item usually.

* I doubt localization to Russian is as good as Spanish, very often.

* Definitely agree that translations from actual users are leagues ahead of professional translator services, good thought to cultivate that.

* You can do it incrementally, and localize your app description prior to the app itself, which doesn't have the same engineering requirements.
I've been going through a used copy of CLRS as a mental nightcap, and speaking as someone with a not-quite-CS technical degree...

"Real" CS-degree holders, how much do you actually use all that the proof/lemma/big-O-determining stuff in your jobs? Have I just been in internal-business-CRUD-software too long?
I think the problem was the same as that faced by languages like D competing with C++11:

It wasn't "better enough" than the alternatives.

It was better than NeXT (what would become OSX), but not enough to be revolutionary. It was better than Windows, Mac Classic, and Linux, but also not enough to be revolutionary.

The existing closed incumbents won out by market share and inertia, and Linux won out by being free, open, and by basically going viral.

If BeOS had been open and free I think it would have given Linux a run for its money, but it wasn't.
That seems unlikely, considering that there is a massive incentive for private firms with tons of money to attempt to create such a storage technique. I doubt any government could beat them to the punch while keeping it a secret.
I'd bet 0.05 BTC he watches anime.
I could see after the flap was lifted. This was 2005 so I don't know the procedure anymore, but I was supposed to keep my eye trained on a flashing dot while the laser ablated my cornea.
This has to be the first time I have ever heard a US media outlet saying that a US citizen holding a US flag is a PR blunder for a US audience.

edit - besides, that flag probably needed a cuddle - https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7056/6814006164_3d3d3b9673_z.j...
> You mean Bluray licenses, Smart cards, embedded devices, car infotainment systems, radio controlled temperature meters, factory assembly line controllers .... ?

Do you have the numbers? For me, smartcards excepted, all those things based on J2ME are on their way out.
I think there was some work into this called "SouthPaw", to contrast with the external NorthPaw.
No, it's not a new phenomenon. But I think it's bad, and I don't think it's justified to say that each nation is "doing its job."
All Pacific salmon (which is what these are) die after spawning. A few Atlantic salmon (about 10%, ATW) will survive to make another trip.

The Pacific species basically start to decompose as soon as they hit fresh water.

Once they've spawned, they fall apart like something out of a bad horror movie. I've seen semi-alive fish that you could stick your thumb through without any effort (usually snagged by a tourist who's proud of his accomplishment).
A lot of his work was developed at IMPA (Brazils Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics), which has historically been somewhat connected to french mathematics universities. But, yeah, our best minds still go abroad to become fully developed.
The big problem in Brazil is that our basic education is crap. We do have good higher institutions, but a lot of the people who end up there never had a good base.
> It seems like recently you don't even need the .com (e.g. famo.us and socket.io)

Keep in mind that these examples are websites that target developers, which at least in the past were more willing than others to go to non-.coms.
Who can come up with a better headline? I like "Open Source PaaS for the Future"

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ret624lf739til4/Screenshot%202014-...

A more clear header would help with messaging.
We nuked Japan. Should they nuke us?
> He is living on New York time, the better to communicate with his stateside supporters and stay on top of the American news cycle.

I hope he has Vitamin D stocked.
What about the idea of a blockchain? Because that's the creative leap.
Isn't that kind of like erlang?
https://buysellads.com/
360fly Raises Cash for Panoramic Camera Tech
Even the CNN commenters call this article a troll. I don't bother up-voting this.
The blockchain is a creative leap, not an "improvement".
In regards to your aside, I essentially went through the opposite situation, i.e. I gradually lost my hearing as a kid (genetic condition) until I was completely deaf, and then got a bunch of surgeries which fixed the situation (until I lose everything again in about 15 years, or so I'm told).

In any case, my speech was affected in the way you describe. Most soft sounds started merging, e.g. 's', 'sh', 'tsh', etc. would all end up sounding like 'sh' coming from my mouth, and I had absolutely no idea that was the case. Similarly, I had no idea what the volume of my voice was, it'd either be really loud or really quiet, but rarely at the right level. My parents (mostly) told me I wasn't speaking properly (it took years before anybody realized I was going deaf, including myself), I ended up relying heavily on the vibrations I felt in and around my mouth/throat to correct these as much as possible.

Interesting aside to this aside, there exist implants for people who were born without a cochlea (the spiraly thing which "translates" vibrations). These implants are made of some alloy (not sure what exactly) which thankfully emulate a cochlea, but have the interesting side-effect of causing the affected people to speak with a fairly monotone and somewhat metallic voice.
I'm not sure I'm buying that.

A great deal of effort must have gone into staying anonymous, and planning & designing & developing the client, the network, the scripting language, the economic progression (difficulty levels, decreasing block rewards, etc) and even the ascii content embedded in the genesis block. There must have been a plan for the first mining operation as well, why put in so much effort and then be surprised it catches on?

The "unfairness" of pre-mining (or early mining) must have been considered.

OTOH i haven't looked at the numbers. Would a dump of Satoshi's holdings crash the market?
First Direct. The iPhone app itself acts as the 2nd factor.
Laughter is good for the brain.
We had was a Brazil-born British citizen who won a Nobel in medicine. He could have been a brazilian citizen, but he renounced his citizenship to avoid Brazil's mandatory military service, which to this day is still mandatory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Medawar
After reading the article, I'm not sure if I should modify my lifestyle to integrate small amounts of alcohol everyday. Would that have an impact on daily life? will that amount of alcohol kill brain cells affecting my cognition? what about degenerative diseases, like Alzheimer's?

Any insights would be appreciated.
Ask HN: Why don't more apps use peer to peer networking?
I think my question boils down to: is there a fundamental reason apps don't use p2p networking, or is it just that there aren't any good app P2P SDKs or programming techniques out there?

(Note: by P2P in this context I mean over the Internet, not the emerging wireless "Internet of things" P2P networking stuff. That's a bit different, and has a different use case.)

Take an example: SnapChat. (Just using them as a hypothetical here.) Why didn't they architect their app to send snaps directly when possible? It would have saved them a lot on bandwidth for starters. If they wanted to also store snaps on their servers they still could have done so, but they could have saved considerably on downstream bandwidth costs by sending snaps "horizontally" between users if these users happen to be online.

Is it just that it would have been too much work development-wise, or is there a more fundamental reason companies like this pass on P2P?

Spotify used a P2P protocol but last I heard they were moving away from it. Netflix -- about as bandwidth heavy as you can get -- doesn't do it. Skype has moved away.

Why?

The only reasons I can think of are:

(1) It's hard to program and there are few good SDKs to make it easier.

(2) Some users -- enough to be meaningful -- have bandwidth caps even on wired Internet connections.

(3) Cellular data connections almost always have bandwidth caps, and so users on these networks dislike p2p apps eating their bandwidth.

Which of these is most significant? Or are there other reasons?
I learned about the blind spot in my Visual Analytics course during my Masters. I wasn't aware of this phenomenon prior to that and it was fascinating to take the blind spot test and to learn that the brain interpolates vision for the blind spots using data from the surroundings, memory etc. so well that we never notice the blind spot.

I wonder if such a phenomenon occurs with people who lost sight during their life and aren't blind by birth, where the brain fills in the blanks based on memory.
Correct. I didn't believe you until I checked Wikipedia.
It looks like a lot of the functionality is only shown in the video, and it moves pretty fast. I wish I could pause it.
Windows has a built-in tool for taking screenshots called Snipping Tool.
It looks to me like the author is trying hard to justify localization because he wants it to be worthwhile, but looking at the numbers, I don't see the evidence. The reasons he gives seem like rally big stretches and factual cherry-picking.

It is nice to make your game available in many languages, but getting translations that aren't terrible is hard, and I have never seen a clear business case for it. So I think the proper attitude is "there is not an obvious business case, but we are doing it because we want to."
Especially given the NSA borrows an awful lot of its software inspiration from the private sector (eg Google's BigTable). There's little reason to think their hardware efforts would be dramatically more advanced if their software effort isn't.

What the NSA has are three things: a lot of money coming in every year; a lot of relatively intelligent and highly skilled people working for it; and a license to do terrible things and get away with it (ie they can take incredible risks, and try outrageous things, with minimum concern, and or certainly previously could).

The NSA has a budget roughly the size of Microsoft's annual R&D budget, without needing an $80 billion highly profitable business to be maintained. It's amazing what you can do and or attempt with a 'free' $10 or $12 billion per year to burn.
Interesting article - especially the idea of a continued oral tradition in pure mathematics when it comes to the why and what good is it as opposed to the rigorous styles used in the formal papers.

This type of system would seem to be necessary but not sufficient to achieve a technological singularity.
I don't use XAML in my WPF code.
I'm wondering how many of the Russian purchases were due to "cd key stores" or similar. Given that they're only paying half of what US customers are, the markup's high enough. Also, more and more of these stores send you the games as steam gifts.
> This gives us four types of transaction [...]

Is there a fifth? I'm reminded of a saying (attributed to the Inuit): "Gifts make slaves, just as whips make dogs." (IIRC I saw it in Debt: The First 5000 years)

Where does that fit? At first blush, it looks like it's a pure-"trader" view of things (rejecting the idea of gifts) but I think it's actually assigning a "priceless" value to a shared idea... The idea that every member of the community is self-sufficient enough that gifts aren't necessary.

> The transaction is also a cousin of what Clifford Geertz called deep play with reference to betting patterns in Balinese cockfighting.

Oh, wow, I'm having flashbacks to a writing class in college where we had to critique that Balinese Cockfighting thing. Maybe it was just bad curriculum/prompts, but I've always carried around a "WTF was that shit" chip on my shoulder against that paper.
Another simple benefit to localization is that it can make it easy to fix typos or reword things in your native language, too, if you use short keys in your code and have all real strings in a single place.

Even if you don't plan on localizing, it's a good habit to move all your strings to one place like this, as you can quickly see in one place if all of your strings have consistent tone, style, and word usage.