skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working on a big project where people come in and out too often is a problem in its own right. The simple reality of code being written by too many people who are there only for short time tends to create special kind of mess. It also means that project will tend to repeat the same mistakes again and again.

This kind of integration projects tend to be discounted by some as boring and stupid and indeed there is a lot of boring and annoying work to do on them. The thing is, this kind of project also have non-trivial learning curve until you become effective and the more organizational mess there is to overcome the steeper it becomes.

There are more red flags then just salary cap on this one.
Oh, I see:

>> A true cryptographic hash cannot be decrypted. However, to keep things simple the word hash is used loosely to refer to the random set of characters that is generated -- like a YouTube hash.

What?
This is pretty cool tech! I kicked in quite a while ago, and am still waiting for my seeds. While I grumbled a bit, I was given a chance to vote for spending more time for higher quality--which I did. I am looking forward to when I have more time to work on things like this.
Like reality TV shows amen brother
Why Real Innovation Comes From Powerful Pairs
They do an issue once per month I think. I subscribe via email and they do a really nice job.
Do you have a source on h1B visa driving down wages?

Because for an employer to sponser an h1b immigrant, they need to be paid more than the prevailing wage for their job in the area, which is a combination of salary, benefits, and other factors.

And how is it ruining higher education? Isn't the point to have a better educated workforce?

If a public school accepts so many international students for their CS Masters program, isn't that a problem with the state school, not the immigration system?
I don't think that's true - I've not seen a single style guide that suggests that!
Making Sense of Amazon-Hachette
'Troid Rage: Why Game Devs Should Watch Alien–and Play Metroid–Again
Wikipedia describes it as a shell company still. I would be really surprised if they developed this themselves.
$99? That's well in to "shut up and take my money!" territory. I've long wanted to buy a GoPro for the occasional kayaking / climbing / skiing footage but there was no way I could justify the price tag. $99 (+$40 waterproof kit) really changes the equation for casual shooters like myself.
It's = Shortended "it is"

"It is wide angle lens" doesn't work.
Complexity in Software 1: Black Boxes and Message-Oriented Programming
“sins to remember” by Nassim N. Taleb
The Utah tech sector was really made by Word Perfect and Novel. The University of Utah and Brigham Young University provided the tech talent that really didn't want to leave the state, and WP and Novel provided the jobs and, ultimately, the capital that started many of the companies south of Salt Lake City that turned the area into a tech hub (the UofU's graphics program was crucial to companies like Evans and Sutherland further north).

It is unfortunate that, today, we don't have that kind of "anchor" company in our "Valley". Omniture was starting to take on that role, but it sold to Adobe. Adobe has turned the area into a second home, becoming an anchor to quite the little tech office community between Salt Lake City and Provo, but it's not the same as having a company headquartered and growing capital here.

I started working in the area right as WP was starting to ramp up speed on its downward slide. I remember working at a small company, going through resumes of people laid off from WP, seeing one guy who had spent the last 5 years working on the "File" dialog. These guys were also making double or more the going rate for software engineers.

As a young software engineer, I learned an important lesson at that time: make sure I keep learning and changing, because every company fails and it's really hard to get a new job when your career has been as the "File" dialog guy. I also learned some important business lessons about what not to do from WP and Novel, most of which came from hubris more than anything.
While I appreciate the brainpower the USDS is bringing to bear, I'd like to hear more about how they'll actually handle the politics and reality of what they're doing - disrupting bureaucracy and federal processes. Specifically, how can a service like this be effective when going up against entrenched bureaucrats, massive big corps, etc.? Healthcare.gov was an exception, due to the media spotlight and the political reputations at stake.

(Disclaimer: I'm investigating federal contract opportunities, so I would LOVE to see the process overhauled.)
A large part of the issue comes down to funding, and a lack of resources to do the kinds of studies that would help answer some of our most pressing questions. Our insistence on making recommendations — without having the proper research to back them up — has unintended, harmful effects.

This seems sort of crazy. Properly understanding what makes for a healthy diet would go a long way in reducing health issues.

I imagine that nutrition research just isn't as sexy as, say, mapping the human brain.
That's for you personally. There's a reason companies spend millions of dollars on branding (for the masses) though... any marketing 101 person can tell you you don't want your company associated with negative images like toxins :p
Add a link to packdog.com so we can see it! I had to scroll to the bottom. Otherwise, great post!
There is greed and selfishness and there is being taken advantage of. When project leadership appeals too much on heroism, unchecked ego, patriotism or loyalty, all kinds of red flags are going up.
Nor have I seen it. Its use is being butchered here. It's a problem.
I'm often shocked by how awful mobile games are, at least on Android.
Whenever I look for games, all I can find is.

1) The popular casual F2P games, candycrush, angry birds etc

2) Endless clones of 1 (this is at least 50% of the market).

3) Low quality games that were made to cash in on some trend like zombies , military shooters etc.

In contrast , on Steam I could buy almost any of the cheap indie titles and find something original or fun.

So I've basically given up on mobile gaming altogether. I wonder if this is a product of the app store model or something intrinsic about the form factor?

Perhaps there just isn't any demand for good games on mobile because anybody serious about games uses PC or console?
I might as well drop this link here:
http://www.chucklohr.com/808/index.shtml

I have the #16 and its a neat little toy for my cheap syma quad copter.
Ask HN: MBA student wants internship in USA. How to get one?
A friend of mine who is in a reputed (top-3) MBA college in India wants to get an internship (Summer 205) in one of the companies in Bay area. If you know how he can go about finding and interviewing for these jobs, please let me know. If you know anybody who has done something similar before, please do let me know.

Thanks
I understand your cynicism, and it's not entirely misplaced, but this team is both formidable and comes with strong support from the administration—in particular, from US CTO Todd Park.

For whatever reason, the tech press hasn't picked up on Todd yet, but he's as good as it gets. Prior to working for the government, he was a two-time founder: he started both Athena Health (now a public company) and Castlight (recent IPO). When healthcare.gov went down, Todd was the one Obama asked to assemble the "tech surge," including Mikey, and he pitched in around the clock to get things working--literally, at multiple points, sleeping in the office overnight when things went awry. I promise you that the people in charge don't consider this a typical, 9-to-5 job and don't leave teams to fend for themselves. They are there in the trenches.

You can get a sense of who we're working with in this talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4WpQGfPt_E
Neighbours and HOAs are two completely different things. I'm not sure what your point is in conflating them.
satisfying a taste and product differentiation is the main driver. the body loves sweets, salts and fat and who wants wheat bread when you can have honey wheat bread.

Some blame comes down to the producer and marketing trends, gluten is a good example. Up until recently, gluten free had no regulation with using that on packaging.
http://www.fda.gov/food/guidanceregulation/guidancedocuments...

When discussing this with friends, I use the example of sodas being marketed as caffeine-free, rather than caffeine added. They are all caffeine free to start.
> What is a little difficult to grasp is what patented, arithmetical equations are being used and why they work.

Which is why TCP/IP is going to be around for a long time yet, and very unlikely to be replace by a closed, proprietary alternative. The TCP/IP spec is open to all - if you want to build a network or device that talks TCP/IP there's the specification, have at it. The open nature of internet and web protocols helped make the modern internet possible. We should not be so quick to shut the door on such a rich and productive legacy. (Or, at least, refrain from writing hyperbolic headlines).

That being said - a company selling an alternate, high-performance networking protocol could have a strong market. ISP routing over the last mile, educational/research or any other institution that operates a WAN may be a good customer.
Kontakt.io Cloud Beacon
The cables are pretty limited in both number and capacity. Just compare Australia with Japan for example:
http://www.cablemap.info/
Women in Data Science – Positive Imagery for the Win
Ask HN: Has front-page algorithm changed?
Within the last few months I've noticed a distinct trend where I'm no longer deferring to the "new" link after I see that there is nothing on the front-page I find interesting. The difference is so noticeable I'm inclined to ask if something significant has changed, such as an algorithm?
i can't lookup the debian bugs now... but beware. it will work only until you write a not so rare byte combination there using the SDHC interface. after that happens, the sdxc controller will just crap on every data read and you will have a tiny brick.
Lessons From My 20s by Ryan Allis
realizes that returning to their roots as a PC gamer is the way to go.

Of course it remains to be seen whether even that is the way to go. He might enjoy the work more, but that won't matter much if this business turns out to be unsustainable, too.
Szeliski also has written a comprehensive Computer Vision book for those looking to learn the field. It's a fairly good one (and available for free online - http://szeliski.org/Book/).
I know why. It's because you didn't bother looking. I found some on trucking and banking within ten seconds of starting to look.
Just a note that a watch for that depth would probably be sold as 100m - 10 metres is pretty good.
Anyone wanna share their first hack here?
I mean, if you want to buy a sports action camera of uncertain pedigree, ebay has you covered [1]. I like polaroid, I also don't mind white-boxing under a known brand name. It can be a great way for lesser known companies to break into markets.

However, it still behooves you to know who really manufacturers and supports the product. Both so you can avoid the bad and support the good.

[1] http://www.ebay.com/sch/Camcorders-/11724/i.html?_from=R40&_...
You could use that argument to say 4-digit bank card PINs are really bad security - and you'd be right, except that they're always locked out after N attempts.

Why not the same approach here? if you try to brute force a password reset, you lock out further attempts for a few minutes.
Well, to clarify, I've been working as a programmer for about 2 years now (which to me is still pretty new). Was hired before I graduated ;)

But yes, in general I do feel like I have _alot_ more professional development ahead of me.

To me this approach seems like it would work really well. But yes, I definitely think experience would help in the "editing" part of the list. Although, I imagine there has to be creative ways to get feedback on what works or won't work, even if I'm new to an industry.
I saw the "Saving Healthcare.gov" talk at Uber.The speakers were excellent and their observations were terrifying.

If you are believe in progressive goals and methods, the success or failure of the U.S. Digital Service will have a far greater impact on relevancy of progressive goals than who wins the next election or the election after that.

The "Saving Healthcare.gov" presentation portrayed the Federal Government as brittle, dysfuctional and broken. I came away believing that insider's in the federal government are largely aware of ongoing failure of the federal government. I suspect the expansion of security state agencies like NSA and Homeland Security is in many ways driving by the need to protect a failing system from any plausible external threat.
I wonder why there don't seem to be many open-source options in this space?

I did a Google before, but I could only find a single option - https://code.google.com/p/easy-appointments/, a PHP app.

Is anybody aware of any others?
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While author is probably getting the point of mobile gaming, it should be obvious that it's not about big banner games that you work on for months and hope it to be hit. It's about very quickly churning out dozens of games a year and see what sticks. People I know in this business haven't become millionaires but they don't feel this is a lost cause as business (whether this is also tasteful or not that's another question). They usually weep out a game in a weekend, sometime very silly stuff that is just made out of "template game" replaced by stock graphics. In other words, they write little or no code, design little or no graphics for most of the time. Once in a while they might make a game with some original code and graphics but that's not typical. When they do this, they have offshore people doing much of the grunt work. Sometimes these offshore people are "permanent" employees of their little company but they don't get salaries. Instead they are offered stack in the company. All these keeps net costs down when it comes to cash flow. Most mobile games that have succeeded aren't earth shattering graphics or code. So their hope is that one of their silly things would eventually work out and become a huge hit to pay off year or two worth of weekend work.
Did you ever lay your hands on a Polaroid android tablet? The first thing I learned is that Polaroid has nothing to do with them, they are marketed by a shell company called Southern Telecom which as far as I can tell is about as Southern as Hunan or Guangdong. (South China maybe.)

I would say GP's analysis is spot-on, wrt other offerings that were branded as Polaroid lately. You're also right that this looks like a much more well thought out initiative. Here's to hoping it's not just more time spent thinking through the promotional materials.
the way to flag this to an employer is simply. not to air the grievance but to inform them of it if it is public knowledge... e.g you left as a result, it was your former employer who will be contacted for a reference, or there was some public exposure etc.

they might already know and its in your best interest to be honest. getting found out after the fact is bad, regardless as to your employer's intentions.

its really quite different from airing the concerns that led to the situation.

in this specific case the problem is that he worked for a short period and was let go very rapidly. having a 2 week blip as your last role on a CV is worth explaining - but not complaining about.
Now that you mention it, it's obvious that mine are as well. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
I work on many business applications. I find developers make tables as a first recourse because they are easy and don't require thoughtful design of the most usable way to view and interact with data.

Edit: Also the example you showed me is definitely not tabular data, as each column cannot be tabulated to a sum or other aggregate. It would most likely be much more semantic to make it a list.
Most of the actions in this list are not achievable because of Departmental CIO policies.
Since most people are latching onto the throwaway sentence at the end about luxury shuttles, I'm going to thank you for pointing out that distributed growth should be part of the strategy. Downtown Oakland has the transportation infrastructure to handle higher density (in a way that Sausalito, or anywhere in Marin, would take billions in investment to match) and I think Oakland should openly court more taxpayers and taxpaying businesses relocating across the bridge.
Amateur Radio Universal Text Messaging/Contact Initiative
> Why?

Because dealing with many APIs is an extra effort and proprietary APIs make games harder to port to other platforms. Of course those who have unlimited resources are free to write games even in assembly for each platform, but most don't have such resources.

> And that convenience derives in large part from the monoculture

Convenience of users has nothing to do with monoculture. It has something to do with form factor and design of hardware and software interfaces. Monoculture is just a sick method to lock developers into one platform. Convenience of developers on the other hand should not be based on poor competition. That's a dangerous convenience which leads to stagnation.

> Low-overhead bare metal programming is what enables the relatively long life of most consoles compared to PC gaming

Which is a double sided issue. Longer update cycle makes development simpler but it also limits creativity by artificial technical limits. The update cycle of consoles can be reasonably more frequent.
To me, this seems to ring true - growing up I knew our neighbours (and so did my parents), but now I can't name any of my neighbours. The problem seems to me to be one of a disconnect, or different priorities: I have hobbies, things I love to do, and as far as I know (because I don't know my neighbours), my neighbours don't share in those interests. Given a choice between spending time with people I have nothing in common with (besides geographical location) and pursuing my preferred activities, I choose the latter. This is also why I don't know many of my co-workers very well.
Also, just because the GPU can power 4K doesn't mean it will for a reasonably small amount of power, such that the MBA can continue to pull a 12-hour battery life.
This is one of the most gut-wrenching condemnations of mobile/casual game development I've read

Eh, is it? The author was sure that mobile was where it was at in 2010, observing that no one was playing consoles (consoles were and are as hot as ever), with nary a mention of PC gaming. They made a, sorry to say, easily replicated game for a niche market, among what already was 100s of thousands of app.

In these sorts of stories it's always a little more complex, and of course someone will be looking out and making broad conclusions about externals, when some of their own decisions were questionable.

I'm not trying to be a critic of the author, but given the number of "see?" type posts, people need to be somewhat more skeptical.

and realizes that returning to their roots as a PC gamer is the way to go.

This is almost too much. Steam greenlight is just overwhelmed with hundreds of entrants, and they're opening the floodgates even wider. And while I'm very likely to try out random little games on mobile (particularly if they're free to play -- not that I like the model when abused smurfberry style, but it is turning into a "try before you buy" tactic that is reasonable), then pay a dollar or so and get an hour or two of entertainment out of it, it's extremely unlikely that I'm going to install anything from a small studio on my PC -- everything is from megastudios where teams of hundreds worked for years, because that's the competition.

On the topic of large teams, the baseline on the PC is incredibly high now. Not only the triple-As, of course, but every amateur has a very high baseline of Unity/Unreal/etc. This seems like a godsend ("Yay I have Unity and all of these cool shaders and techniques and seemingly endless power"), but it means that the artistic and technical demands are enormously high and resource intensive.
1200 slides? Yea, no way I will ever look at this.. Is there a synopsis or maybe even the presentation these slides went to?
Nintendo's 'Virtual Boy' HMD Could Get a New Game 19 Years After Discontinuation
I've been using ghost on http://christopherbull.name for a while. It's great. Initially it was a middleman site, but that just requrired too much code to get setup. Hosted ghost is perfect for what I wanted: A simple place to write.
Hi Chad!

So, if I understand it correctly, Rigetti Computing is planning on simulating how the software for a quantum computer will provide better performance than classical computing, and otherwise do useful stuff. This sounds like an interesting part of the quantum computing ecosystem, assuming that such an ecosystem evolves.

So, a few questions would be:

a) what does RC offer that is not already being provided by the academic algorithmic community?

b) are you making the assumption that hardware specifics do not have any effect upon your goals? if so, how confident are you that this is true? does the DWave quantum annealing issue play into this at all?

c) do you have any customers lined up yet?

d) do you have any kind of 'challenge problem' which you think would be particularly good at demonstrating what RC (as opposed to QC in general) can do?

Best of luck on your startup!
Also,
https://www.tapr.org/pdf/DCC2009-RadioTextMessaging-WB4APR.p...
That made me wonder how many digits of pi are hardcoded in Mathematica...
Cool, that's a neat summary =). It was actually getting a bit confusing picking the "best" one. It seems like Mjolnir is the way to go.

Also - on a sidenote - is https://github.com/sdegutis/osx-snip still going?
Meanwhile, I looked at my Steam library and realized that I've been playing exclusively Kickstarter, Alpha, and Greenlight games. I think the PC gaming revolution is quietly happening.
Congrats! Send Kyle a high five for us, it's been awesome watching your progress!
I found it interesting that in the paragraphs right after that, it's all about depending on employees to do the right thing, giving them trust and empowerment, and not micro-managing them.

That's what he says. Compare it to what he does: "For years I was the person most feared in the company. If I walked down a hallway, I was used to hearing the sound of desk drawers closing as people hid their snacks from view. If I attended a meeting, it was likely that at least a few of the people there were afraid to speak to me."

Lovely. I know the syndrome of ill-defined, perhaps unrealistic expectations, miscommunication, turf-building on the part of management, and you should run from it as fast as you can. The party line coming from your manager is that you are supposed to support the firm, but what you actually do in practice is support your manager in looking good. Everything is documented (you might get hit by a bus or get thrown under one), except the bossfellow's propietary systems.

The chap preaches water and drinks wine.
> I can make life for family and friends better

You realize that that is also selfish, right? Why are your family and friends more important than anyone else's? I understand that many people these days don't feel any need to care about the larger world around them, but I do not understand why they need to be so brash and proud of it.
Most users do not grok tables. Most developers do because they are easy to automatically generate based on lists of things with common attributes.

Tabular data is a very exclusive set of information in which columns can be aggregated to sums, counts, et al.

Most tables on the web do not contain tabular data.