skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live pretty close to Stanford but I am not a student. Is it possible for me to just "sit in" for a couple of lectures? :)

http://www.quora.com/What-does-Stanford-do-about-non-Stanfor...
http://store.steampowered.com/app/9180/

Actually, I think I'm going to go buy it now... it's been too long since I've played Keen.
this is turning similar to the vaccination debate with children.

you need to vaccinate the herd if you want risk-free meat. a lot of people used to die due to contaminated meat and animal products.

free range chicken does not even exist anymore - can't can keep them outside due risk of infection from other birds (bird flu). etc etc etc.

you can turn to vegetarianism, with all the other issues it brings. separate discussion. but once you're ok with using animals for food, you need to get real about vaccinating them. no way around it.

nature is NOT a romantic mother, it is a very harsh place which is the sole reason for our civilization. all inventions (housing, agriculture, etc.) are meant to protect us from nature - cold, bugs, predators, accidents, genetics, etc.
Crows as well. One radio report I recall discussed how they not only recognize human faces but can inform others about individuals that threaten them. The researcher who was featured has to wear a mask when he is performing experiments or else he risks being attacked by other birds while walking around campus...
ln -sf /usr/bin/emacs /sbin/init
Which sub reddits do conversations like that take place?
Luckily for Palantir whether or not it works is classified. I have my doubts. I'm sure it "works", but I'm also sure it's a giant waste of money and Americans are not safer because we're funneling millions of dollars to Palantir.
So at what point do any of these tools build a naive model of 3d and projective geometry. I don't think when people look at pictures all they are doing is extracting 2d features because in my head I am imagining some kind of 3d space and placing things in them according to how the picture shows them. One obvious reason pictures with weird angles and perspectives are hard to understand is because I can't properly orient myself in the made up picture world.

Proper AI or deep learning or whatever it is that is the fad these days should account for this kind of model building that brains are good at. Looking at 2d pictures and only extracting 2d features doesn't feel like any kind of model building but more like really good data mining but deep data mining doesn't sound as sexy.
Is "cleverer" a word?
I guarantee it'd be useful. I guarantee in trying to use it you would find friction in both your day to day dev and deployment cycles. Using docker forces you to write better services that are easier to dev and deploy.

And yes, that counts for small projects too. I use docker for my 3 microservice service that runs a single instance on my local box. Still worth it.
A dolphin can catch a meal by blowing bubbles. Let's see a dog do that :)
Your customers have absolutely no idea of what is on your resume.
I think the OP forgot the /s at the end of his comment.
Hilarious how SpaceX gets $2.6 billion to develop human space flight, while Microsoft pays almost the same amount to buy Minecraft. Talk about ridiculous evaluations in the tech industry.
Ask HN: Should I take a minimum wage dev internship at a startup?
Today I was offered a part-time role as a full-stack developer at a well funded startup. They have a small team (~10 people, 2 engineers) that is growing quickly, and the company is in dire need of more hands to develop their product, which has not been launched yet. There is a huge potential market for their product, but market fit is not proven at all, as they don't even have an MVP in production. As their first part-time intern, they are offering me minimum wage.

I am starting my last year of CS at a top tier university, and I have previously had paid internships at both large software companies and startups. I was looking to improve my skills and maybe line something up for full time after graduation, but also for a way to make some cash. Currently, I already have a part-time programming job, which I don't particularly enjoy, as I do it solo and there are no other experienced engineers to learn from (which sucks). Nevertheless, I get paid 1.5x what I'd get paid at the startup, and my work is greatly appreciated by the users.

I believe in the startup's mission and I think that their product could be a success, but I don't know if I can justify the financial hit or the opportunity cost of a job elsewhere or even working on my own side projects. Honestly, I feel like minimum wage is disrespectful for this kind of role, especially given the responsibility that they want me to take on. If the company does succeed there is no upside for me other than potentially joining full time after the rocket takes off.

Should I try to negotiate better terms? If so, how?
Should I just say no? Any help is greatly appreciated.
I believe in this case, based on the author clearly having some mastery of the art, it was used to extend the example for the sake of explanation.

There are lots of ways to tighten up the example, if needed.
They are being awarded about what it costs for a couple months for the wars in Iraq.

Sigh, our priorities suck.
Another problem in "dog intelligence" is that a lot of it is misconstrued with obedience. Sure, dog A and dog B both understood the command you issued; and the one that gets labelled as "intelligent" is the dog that chose to follow that direction versus the other dog who made up his own mind as to what to do.

Most scent hounds are perfect examples of this. They never have high representations at obedience competitions, but put an obstacle between them and what they are tracking, and you will see amazing problem solving skills.
OP here. Well I've never heard if it being abused yet so I suppose you're right, but it seems so easy. For the festival I referred to in my post, it only has a capacity of 40k, yet I ended up with 6 of these tickets that I gleaned from eBay and local auction sites.
Another example that reflects the spirit of what I believe graphenbeach is trying to say is similar to what some of the pharmaceutical and biotech companies (publicly traded inlcuded) are practicing every day: they perform research and invest very large amounts of money on matters that may or may not lead to a successful (not to mention FDA approved) outcome. Similar to a startup that risks VC, the small chance of a massive payback is what makes this approach attractive to investors & stakeholders. A company like Apple could easily pursue what would be nothing more than a 'diversification' of their otherwise seemingly very conservative financial strategy by going after one or two such high risk high reward projects.
Friend is a site supervisor for a pretty big GC up here in Seattle - They used to pay a pilot a few hundred bucks every time to fly over job sites to take aerial photography.

He decided one month w/o telling the bosses to spend the money on a $500ish drone with a decent camera attached and cancel the pilot flights.

Showed the foreman the capabilities of the little drone, which quickly made it's way up the chain, and now one pilot is out of a recurring job.

Thanks robots.
Ah, sarcasm, because the piracy stuff is wrapped in an #if 0
Mathematics's role in deciphering the molecular basis of life
I Don’t Remember the Last Time I Cared at Work
GMO food, off the top of my head.
Australia: 146 registered Remotely Piloted Aircraft operators and counting http://www.casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMS:STANDARD::pc=PC_1...
Looks like piracy.h just contained a reference to a static blob (PIRACY) describing an 80x25x16 text mode screen. movedata copies it directly to the VGA screen base address (0xb800).

Since VGA text mode used one byte to select the character (from a font of 256 entries), and one byte to describe the character's attributes (16 colors aka 4 bits, bold, strikeout, reverse), the resulting buffer for an 80x25 display was 80x25x2 bytes, aka. 4000

When that's done, it waits for the user to acknowledge the anti-piracy message by pressing enter.

This is basically the early 90s equivalent of the "you wouldn't download a car" advert
I don't know when you last looked at FreeBSD/PC-BSD but there's been improvement in graphics performance, and driver coverage in general, though admittedly not as much as Linux, Windows, etc.

Also PC-BSD is working on a BSD-specific desktop called Lumina. It's at an early stage of development so not yet clear how well it will compete with established DEs.

It will be interesting to see how far Linux goes with Wayland, said to be a replacement for X. If X becomes deprecated on Linux, probably BSDs won't travel that path and stick with X, which means X development will be more or less up to the BSD projects. Just my speculation about these things.

What I'm waiting for most is completion of FreeBSD UEFI support, including Secure Boot. Once that's available it should make dual-booting FreeBSD+Windows much easier--a great option to have.
What Happens When Crowdsourcing Stops Being Polite and Starts Getting Real
I think you misunderstand MVP. It's not using somebody else's code and slapping a new domain on it without doing a little effort to customize. Even MVP landing pages look different. And, I think you misunderstand MVP. Instead of getting offensive at critical people - you should rather treasure feedback, especially negative - the guys with the positive feedback (possibly) already bought in. Again, when I see a website looking and behaving like a thousand other ones, I won't revisit, honestly, and I'm not alone. And why would I when you show no attention to detail and no energy to create and keep alive something trying to be different among the million other websites out there?
This is another cloud service that allows free public API access, but it's the first one I'm aware of that is also open source. Much better to build a service or business on something you are in control of.
Number 1 is my brother, which makes sense. He knows many different groups of my friends.

Number 2 is a friend who's a movie producer, ie a professional friendmaker. He's got a zillion friends.

After that it's kind of random.

Three of the women I've actually dated are literally at the bottom of the list. Makes sense, several times I've dated completely out of my circles. Funny to see though.

What's weird is that one of those women's friends, who I otherwise don't know at all, is near the top. Well above the woman I actually dated. We have no other friends in common. Interesting.
> Are the U.S. economy and society more meritocratic than they were 100 years ago?

I think this question is more fuzzy at the 100-year time scale than the 200, 500, or 1000-year scale. It seems fairly uncontroversial that "merit" (whether by pure intelligence or some other metric for skill) had little to do with your station in life in 1514.

> The value of specific cognitive skills varies over time.

True. We should be careful not to anachronistically apply meritocratic assumptions about intelligence to other eras where raw intelligence and mental flexibility was less important than domain knowledge and practiced skill. But can we safely say that the Information Age has put a premium on the skills of those with high intelligence, and the benefits accruing to those workers over the last 50-60 years has skewed the mating priorities of many?

> There is far more to capability than intelligence. For example, there are very smart people who, due to lack of emotional or interpersonal skills, don't produce much.

Also true. Murray is careful to note that when we speak about meritocracy or the hereditary impact of intelligence, we can really only generalize about groups -- it can be wildly inaccurate for individuals. Can we safely say that the Harvard Class of 2014 as a group will have greater economic value over the course of their lives than the Anytown Junior College Class of 2014?
thanks for all the great insite into the numbers on your site.

its amazing to see an indie marketplace actually take off. congrats to you and your hard work.
You can now attach your iPad directly to your face to experience virtual reality
You could probably make due with the python plugin, vim-conque, and ipython.
Well, it's one developer for now, but back in July they mentioned that they would expand the team of developers after 3.0 is released. http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16517
ACPI, kernels and contracts with firmware
Interestingly, the current mating and segregation trends, to the extent they exist, appear to be completely "natural" and lacking in premeditation. Can't help but wonder if modern humans are not the result of a process that left the Neanderthals ( pre-modern humans, whoever they were) behind. I'm no expert, but I don't think a complete lack of gene flow between groups is thought to be required for the process of speciation.
So Palantir is hiring if you have a clearance :-). Time to get your tax dollars back. Looks like SAIC all over again.
I don't really see the "diss" in that passage. I see more of an honest question.
> individual income tax is the employee's share of the tax, and that a company can't point to that and say "look, we pay tax through our employees!"

Except that individual income tax is only part of the tax paid as a result of an employee's employment. The other half is payroll taxes. When arguing that corporations don't pay income taxes, people often act like corporations pay no taxes at all, which simply isn't true.
same error here...
That comment was meant for the Giganews account, and wasn't intended to convince anybody else. It happens that I know the part I quoted is true. And I would not be surprised if Nick did contact the FBI. The rest is nonsense, of course.
Gotta focus on them core competencies. Identical services don't market themselves, someone has got to spend a lot of money to convince people of their uniqueness, and that makes security secondary.
But sharing with the venue means that the artist is taking a higher cut of the ticket than you'd expect.

I read once that some parts of the US have laws requiring X% of the ticket price to go to the performer and that Ticketmaster fees were partly designed to allow the venue to charge its venue hire fees at a higher percentage than is allowed by these laws. Any truth to that?
Excellent post.

Additionally - there has been a recent push in the legal industry to "unbundle legal services." This means that you can use a wide variety of attorneys for individual tasks, rather than one attorney for everything. In short, unbundled legal services give you choice.

An example of what this choice might look like for a startup founder:

Founders can do commonplace tasks themselves, such as writing an employee handbook, and then use an online platform (such as LawGives) to locate a solo practitioner who can review that handbook for compliance with local/state/federal laws. However, when the founders encounter a more complex transaction (such as a round of financing) they are still free to seek out the highly specialized services of a big firm attorney.
Finding a Technical Co-Founder vs. Becoming the Technical Co-Founder
This is compounded by the fact that you can't publicly discuss issues with prerelease versions of iOS/Xcode (although they seem to be relaxing this as of iOS 8, there are still restrictions). This prevents excellent blog posts like this from helping a wide audience of developers when they need it most (trying to update their app in time for release).
Most of what I've seen is that they have fairly amazing learning ability when it comes to problem solving, and also when it comes to applying observations of other octopi solving problems (e.g., an octopus can figure out how to work mechanical things that pose barriers to food, and one octopus can watch another octopus work such an mechanism once to learn how to do it themselves.)
This seems a pretty irrational response. Although I live in the US now (as well as having lived in in NL before) lowering traffic mortality seems like a Good Thing given the economic costs to society resulting from avoidable deaths.

You'll also be missing out on higher speed limits (it's perfectly legal to drive at 80mph on the Dutch equivalent of freeways), much nicer roads, plus if you do get a speeding ticket it's proportional to the degree to which you exceed the speed limit. Well, enjoy your xenophobia!
So there's a sleep tracking EEG gadget and a meditation EEG gadget, but not one that can do both.

I would like it if these devices all communicated over a common protocol so the sensor bands could be separated from the software.

I dissected the OCZ Nia protocol once and it wasn't pretty, it seemed a lot of smoothing happened in the proprietary driver. Maybe these devices all have the same issue, making smoothing in each band's firmware cost prohibitive.
That was mentioned:

> The Atlas V boosters chosen by Boeing have a long history of launching high-priced military payloads. The challenge: The United Launch Alliance rockets rely on Russian-made RD-180 engines whose availability is threatened by tensions between the U.S. and Russia.
A handy real time feed:
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It does? But I thought it is possible to use the LGPL version to develop apps. It is just not possible to distribute them through the app stores because of the app stores, not because of Qt. You don't use the app store to deploy the development version of your app onto you development device.
All About ATM Skimmers
It's interesting that this came along just a couple weeks after LinkedIn Labs turned off InMaps (their visualization and clustering of your linkedin graph): http://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4949/~/inma...
California DMV Wait Times Analysis
Then, of course, there's the mathematical claim to what the greatest wealth to the greatest number is:

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Economics...
ShareLaTeX Cloud Compiler
The original author shared this on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/2gjq1s/3d_model_sea...
There is an interesting and much-neglected corollary to the heritability of intelligence, which is that we are part of the least intelligent generation of humanity that has ever lived.

This follows from the two conditions:

1) intelligence is at least somewhat heritable (empirically true, according to the article)

and

2) intelligence is positively correlated with reproductive success (plausible give humans seem to have been selected for it)

The conclusion follows from the way world population has exploded in the past 250 years, increasing roughly ten-fold in twenty or twenty-five generations. That increase equates to "zero selective pressure": basically anybody could breed successfully, and they did (including my ancestors, some of whom occupied the more stagnant and brackish depths of the gene pool...)

So up until 1750 or so intelligence was being selected for, generation after generation. After that time, there was no pressure and the many small effects that this article documents as underlying the heritability of intelligence (with no single gene showing as much as a 1% effect on the overall outcome) would happily carry us all on a random walk across the landscape, creating engineers in some parts and political partisans in others.

This realization makes particularly funny the various organizations that have at times promoted Nobelists etc as pinnacles of intelligence (William Shockly, inventor of the transistor, was heavily involved in this kind of thing). Nobelists are certainly bright, but it seems more likely you'd find the most intelligent people amongst still-extant stone age tribes, whose pre-industrial life-style would still subject them to selective pressures long released in the more-developed world.
Actually the reason is that we're planning to roll out an EV cert later this year, and we hated the idea that an arbitrary email can remove the green badge.

Once we decided we wanted to do this, then we looked around to see what other places were doing. That's when we noticed Gmail, but it was actually Github's Camo proxy that we thought of first (and ended up cloning).
Are you serious?

http://growandbehold.com/index.php?page=Why
I've never read that, what is the resulting equilibrium?
This kind of thing, without a way to update hundreds of millions of older devices (mostly owned by laypeople that aren't going to be loading custom ROMs/rooting their phone), makes Android a second-class OS. They'll become aware of the issue when their bank account gets emptied or any of the other thousands of ways this could be exploited.
It seems to me that a lot of wild animals are smarter than dogs. Dogs' main ability is to "connect" to us and rad our intentions. On the other hand they are dependent on us and probably not very good at surviving in the wild.
Absoloutely. Too many sites, not enough time. feedly
That is an accurate description.

The best part is that SpaceX will widen the cost up to 10 times(!), when they get their reusability tech working, which Boeing doesn't have.
pastured != pasteured, in addition to the latter not being an actual word in English.
Carmack got many things wrong. The interesting thing is, none of his mistakes mattered, otherwise he would have fixed them. So you wind up with emergent behavior and bugs become features, like bunnyhopping or rocket jumping.

In this case, 204/129 ~= 1.581, which is pretty close to the golden ratio 1.618. In fact, let's just list all the ratios:

1/1 = 1
2/1 = 2
3/2 = 1.5
5/3 = 1.667
8/5 = 1.6
13/8 = 1.625
21/13 = 1.615
54/21 = 2.571
75/54 = 1.389
129/75 = 1.72
204/129 = 1.581

And for the regular series:

1/1 = 1
2/1 = 2
3/2 = 1.5
5/3 = 1.667
8/5 = 1.6
13/8 = 1.625
21/13 = 1.615
34/21 = 1.619
55/34 = 1.618
89/55 = 1.618
144/89 = 1.618

Here's a plot of the ratios (regular series in blue, Carmack's in red...ish): http://i.imgur.com/WA7ipZA.png

In this case, we end up with some lovely oscillations in the second half of Carmack's series. But does it look good for graphics, or behave well for gameplay purposes? No idea! Someone should find out what it's used for. It's an interesting little bit of historical excavation.
> If there were no tax on capital gains and income, which is the whole point of a consumption tax, businesses would have an incentive to distribute much more of their retained earnings to shareholders.

That's kind of a twisted way of looking at it. Insofar as there is a disincentive to distribute retained earnings, its because long-term capital gains are taxed as capital gains, but dividends are taxed both as corporate income and (currently, usually) as long-term capital gains to the recipient.

Simply allowing expensing of distributions would equalize the tax treatment and eliminate the bias in favor of retained earnings, no change in the basic basis of the rest of the tax system is necessary to that purpose.

Sure, eliminating the taxation of income (including corporate income and capital gains) entirely would also eliminate that bias, but its massive overkill if that's your only concern.