skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I record myself every once in a while. Makes for very depressing video.
For anyone wondering, Google says:

"late Middle English: via Latin from Greek Amazōn, explained by the Greeks as ‘without a breast’ (as if from a- ‘without’ + mazos ‘breast’), referring to the fable that the Amazons cut off the right breast so as not to interfere with the use of a bow, but probably a folk etymology of an unknown foreign word."
Sport events. Model shoots.
One big thing this article misses is that crime has been falling worldwide by a similar rate as in America (http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21582041-rich-world-s...).

So prisons do disproportionately imprison the lower classes and far far too many people are put in disgusting prisons to be tortured and treated like subhumans in the US but that doesn't necessarily mean it has caused the big drop in crime.
> like when all the non-crazies left New Hampshire

Huh?
Few years? The Chinese already have done it since many years ago, although pre-2014 models were bulky:

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/2014-New-Design-GPS-Tr...
I used to open books to find answers to my questions. Programming books were a permanent fixture in my desk. Its difficult to remember everything. I now use bookmarks for online documentation. How often do I use it? As often as required.

There is a point with solutions posted online. You still have to document and write tests. In the end, you might have not come up with the actual solution, but you still have had to learn how it works in order to test and document it. It will usually make you refactor it a little bit. Thus ending with your own solution. Programming is funny.
People's eyes are not glued to their screens. I'm sure that they can move their eyes and point them onto other targets, and I'd like to see the evidence of any sticky substance between the ocular globes and the crystal screens. I don't understand the need of hyperbole, in general. Why is it necessary to exaggerate to make a point?
Something I just ran across that is similar to the situation I posed above:

http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/09/11/man-made-911-call-led...
Sports photographers probably take 1000 photos/hour. :)

As for price, i don't think it will even take that long. In 2 years it will cost something like 50 bucks. A USB3.0 128GB flash drive (260MB/s read, 240MB/s write) from SanDisk now costs about $100.
But for some people at some points in their lives it may be a great opportunity, or something they might enjoy/be willing to do for a limited period. If that's all their work ever becomes for the whole career, then they likely have a problem. But looked at from the perspective of a live as a whole, it may have a place within certain contexts and reasonable limits.
Every now and then, I need a little electronic part, or a particular bulb or wire, or something like that. Right now I go to my local RadioShack to get it. When they go out of business, where's the best place to order that stuff online?
Yes, Bratko's book is on my reading list but never got to it so far ;)
In the UK, which is technically EU, you can pretty much just start, depending what it is exactly.
I'll tell you a secret - the world didn't need Doom or Minecraft either, and success is always some part lucky accident.
Full Draft of the Rails Tutorial 3rd Ed
The following may help some fellow Lisp-heads understand some aspects of monads:

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/lisp-snippets/tree/monads.lisp

Monads are developed starting with CLOS, then wrapping macros around them for doing monadic comprehensions. Finally, a monad-defining macro is introduced which generates the class and methods from a succinct syntax, and is used to write several monads, including a state transformer monad.
The difference is that if you sold your company for $x million you can just put your money in a lowish risk investment and do literally whatever you want for the rest of your life with very little stress provided you don't go crazy with the yachts and strippers.

If you have recurring revenue of $x thousand per month from a product or service where revenue doesn't scale with hours worked you still have stress because if your customers leave (for example a competitor launches something better or cheaper) your revenue drops. So you still must spend at least some of your time working on that.
Where is this email notice? I can't find it.
What is the society you would like to live in? A society in which intellectual and philosophical discussions pop up spontaneously on the subway? Or a society in which strangers stop to hug each other in the middle of the street and start conversing dearly and profoundly?
>Games weren’t as big serious business back then.

I'm not much of an gamer but I have an Xbox One and bought Destiny last night. The marketing was way too much, but I figured it should be a decent game. Well, it is, its something of a milquetoast Halo-clone shooter with some tacked on multiplayer/MMO stuff, but, my god, the game is drenched in Hollywood-esque overly-done orchestral music, big dramatic overtures, epic-style storytelling, etc. Its a lot of art and music that really doesn't need to be there. Setting the scene shouldn't be this big of a job, nor as serious. Its just a game- Let me play it.

I doubt AAA games will ever go back to not being movie-like, but it just seems like a huge waste of money and time (yet another 10 minute intro to sit through for example). A part of me would just rather dive into a simpler game that gets me to the gaming parts quickly instead of hitting me over the head telling me how awesome the game will be via cutscenes and dramatic scores.

Simplicity can be its own reward and can be just as emotionally fulfilling, as many low budget and simple-graphic indie games have shown. When Destiny is almost forgotten, we won't be reminiscing about its cutscenes or whatever currently popular actors they got to do the voice-overs. We'll be talking about our battles and accomplishments. Shame the focus on these games is more towards the aesthetic than the actual gameplay.

Notch as our collective gaming conscience is kinda nice. I think someone who has a high profile should be saying these things. A lot of lower profile indie guys certainly have, but they don't have the gaming cred to make the front page of HN, reddit, etc.
Companies can have teams of content moderators or reviewers, whether employees or outsourced.

Good article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/technology/19screen.html?_...
3D Printing Today and Tomorrow – What? How? Challenges?
Yes, but have they ever managed to do anything good in the space? Google Health crashed and burned remember. Lift Labs could have found a better company to work with just by going to single Standford medicine and tech event, of which there are dozens...
Absolutely NAILED it.
As passive as possible, but I'm usually careful when using word "passive" for significant recurring revenues.
In some event photography situations, where the subject is not deliberately posing but engaged in some action, you can take a huge number of pictures and come up with only a few usable ones.

I've photographed some indoor dog agility events, for example; border collies running at top speed through moderately-lit facilities tends to mean lots of unusable photos.
Except when you tread on them. As I found out yesterday. I had another that got damaged in the post, bent and dead.
This is a wonderful explanation, thank you!
The thing for me is, I'd much rather use clojurescript if I'm going to use a language that doesn't compile ~1:1 to javascript.
Great article to make people mad. I liked the metaphors. :D
correct link : http://forthebadge.com/
Good luck convincing Apple to implement the Dart VM in Safari.

One complaint I have heard about Dart is that the dart2js library outputs unoptimized JS. This is unfortunately an issue if we will not see the Dart VM implemented natively by the browser vendors.
BizSpark is amazing. A+++++ would recommend.
For me it's perfect when we tether our shoots to an SSD Macbook Pro.

We can 'set and forget' the SD card in the SD slot and have ChronoSync automatically transfer anything in our tether folder to it. It's a great backup/scratch disk. $800 is chump change for a professional photography studio.

edit: I love that I was downvoted for this.
Volumetric Particle Flow
Shadertoy BETA
The article mentions video applications. 50-60 frames per second -> 180,000-216,000 frames per hour (possibly much more if you're shooting at a higher frame rate).

If you're shooting something that's impractical to retake (whether due to expense or it being an inherently one-time event) you want to use minimal compression, if any. Even if you are using compression, HD video eats gigs like popcorn. :-)
And anti-statists should take notice of how many improvements in working condition did require regulation, and how the Uber/Lyft market has special features (particularly, the fact that the primary service being provided to the end customer is provided entirely by one worker using their own capital and that the fact that what Uber/Lyft provide is essentially a matchmaking service where there is very low friction for a driver to switch services and for the other service to absorb new drivers -- which is not true in many other industries regardless of how competitive they may be on the consumer end.

Even in a competitive market for autos, the capital dependence of the industry -- and potentially geographical separation between plants -- means that if the workers in Alan's factory are upset with their working conditions, they very likely can't just walk over to Bob's factory en-masse and sign up to work there. The ability to do that with certain services that are 1:1 and where the middleman is just providing matchmaking gives the individual service providers more power to set working conditions with the middleman in a market where there are competing middlemen then would be the case in many industries.
When I send them in the mail (which I do rarely but it does happen) I sandwich them between two taped together pieces of thin wood. That means it's no longer a very thin envelope but it increases the chances of safe arrival. They also always go registered.

USB sticks tend to be more robust.
OK, fair enough. But, uh, he is guilty of insider trading right?
Oculus VR founder to give largest donation in University of Maryland history
> And you can't blame addiction problems on the drug war, there would be just as many addicts if not more without it.

You can't blame addiction problems on the drug war any more than you can prevent them with a drug war. They're inevitable. But you can treat them as what they truly are, medical problems, rather than criminal acts. You need look no further than the two major legal drugs in our society to see how how few people are stealing or committing acts of violence to support their alcohol or tobacco addictions. But if you rewind 90ish years, you'll see the same violence you see now with illegal drugs surrounding the then-illegal alcohol. We can thank congress for giving us the 18th and 21st amendments because that period showed us the difference between a legal, regulated market for drugs and a black market.

People are going to use drugs whether they're illegal or not. And that means other people will sell them those drugs, no matter what laws we put in place. Faced with that eventuality, we need to structure society to minimize the damage that's caused by this. Criminalizing substances manifestly does not meet this goal. It's asinine to suggest that it hasn't multiplied our prison population many times over.
Do you even Product?
Onload in Onload: Why you should use document.readyState
This also describes David E. Shaw, who was denied tenure by Columbia University. He now spends most of his time at D.E. Shaw Research, where he basically does what he would have been doing as a tenured professor anyway.
You may not want to bother. Their luster has faded as it has been determined they were a particularly complicated way of representing Applicative + Category: http://just-bottom.blogspot.de/2010/04/programming-with-effe... In theory there's nothing necessarily wrong with them but I think the consensus is that in practice you're better off understanding Applicative (very simple) and Category (also very simple), and then freely combining those however you need to accomplish things, rather than trying to use Arrow (surprisingly complicated).

By contrast, both Applicative and Category as very, very useful.
JEP 198: Light-Weight JSON API
Amazing, that is 320 GB/cm^3. I didn't know that we have possibly already passed the information density of the human brain (~80 GB/cm^3).
No international Accelerator/Incubator?
While the article may seem like six of one / half-dozen of the other at first glance, I love that the author spends time examining the problem.

Things that help me have a "healthy relationship with my work":

Communication with everybody. If a client asks for a change to something, it always takes more time and usually costs more money. I communicate that to the client as early as possible. If a weekend is coming up and I'm working on a big project, everybody involved is going to get a phone call from me. Not an email, a phone call. We talk, we empathize, and we feel better about resuming on Monday. Have a nice weekend!

If I am about to have a very stressful day, I run my plans by my wife. She's has saved me literally hundreds of hours of off-hours work by saying, "I'm sure they'll understand if you just call them and explain X and Y." She is so good at bringing out the details and examining the situation for what it is. It works every time. Somehow my samurai work ethic is way too stubborn sometimes.

I exercise my option to turn down projects as often as I want. Six years ago I stood above my twin daughters' headstone, somehow still thinking about a work project I had going on, and all of the drama was completely ridiculous compared to the big picture of life, family, and normal relationships. I looked up toward the distant mountains, said "it's not worth it," and things have been better ever since. That memory comes to mind whenever I have big decisions to make--is the cost of the happy-life-occlusion scenario worth it, in light of the simple things that fulfill my requirements in life?

Anyway, great article. I would add that at some point, plenty of people decide to change their work and go through the entire upheaval again, re-answering all of these balance questions. I have a friend who is literally packing her things right now to leave home and become a missionary. The stress is evident on her face, but when she talks about her future, she's excited and seems fulfilled in some way. In a similar vein, I've had a few conversations with "retirees" who are extremely stressed about what they're about to enter into, but there's no way they're going back.
Got a reference on that? They claim otherwise.

http://news.dartlang.org/2013/03/why-dart2js-produces-faster...
There is a whole shadowy world of property owners who own poorly maintained slum property that they buy cheap, fix up to a minimum standard, and basically farm for rent at premium rates. Typically in most cities there is a cartel of a few dozen people who own a large proportion of this type of property. It's difficult to identify them as they work through shell companies.

Much of this property is subsidized under the Federal Section 8 program, which pays a "prevailing rent" rate for low income property. Often these rents approach the rates paid for luxury apartment complexes in the suburbs.

These folks need to keep the areas around their property poor and ignorant. So they work with phony "progressive" mouthpieces/lobbyists that block good construction projects using the environmental impact review process. They'll blow up issues like traffic impact, greenspace, impact on storm sewers, etc to block things like medium-density housing. (Typically, they are silent when their sponsors drop a 200,000 square foot big-box + strip mall nearby)
So all you said was there are B players for specific companies, but they might be A players in a different one.

Fucking brilliant.
Somewhat amusingly the Fhantom Flex4k hits ~33 Gbytes per second of RAW 4k footage at 1000FPS. http://www.visionresearch.com/Products/High-Speed-Cameras/Ph...

So, this is still to small to be useful for those videos. However, for more normal 4k videos @ 30-60FPS this is probably a good fit and a much nicer form factor than SSD.
According to Wiktionary, you are using an older form of "pretension."

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pretention
Note that this argument applies equally well to enforcing the edicts of England's Star Chamber.
Drone testing in the Coffee fields
Doesn't perfect also depend on what you're trying to do?

It's all trade offs but as we increase what we do with our phones, a bigger screen potentially becomes more valuable.

I know a lot of people saying they have no interest in more than 3.5" or 4". Generally those people are fairly casual users. I also know "power users" (horrible term) who have been crying out for bigger screens.

I'm less worried about thumb size and more worried about how it feels in my pocket.
Well, Apple's lack of choice sure helped me pick out my last laptop.

I had three companies on my list of laptops: Asus, Lenovo, and Apple. Go checkout Asus and Lenovo's websites. You'll find dozens of different laptops in various configurations spread across different lines and with many of the laptops further configurable after you've added them to your cart. You can't do a proper analysis of which to buy without starting a spreadsheet.

Oh, and most of the models you find at the store will end up being something completely different from what you saw on the website further compounding the issue.

I spent half a day building out a spreadsheet to compare all the different configurations and then decided to throw it all out and just buy a MBP since I needed the laptop by the end of the week and didn't have the time or energy to compute every possible combination of Asus's and Lenovo's lineup to figure out which laptop was the optimal purchase.
Gem launches easy-bake Bitcoin security to help mainstream the cryptocurrency
FYI it's called Elixir, not Exilir.
I think, if you're approaching modern AAA games as games, you're gonna have a bad time. They're not games; they're stories told in the second person (like Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books) where the point of the gameplay isn't fun-as-its-own-reward, but deeper immersion/mimesis to make the story more rewarding. Almost no big-name player in the games industry is really making games per se any more--excepting the companies that just make the same sports/fighting/racing retreads over and over.

Here's another way to think about it: most games companies employ nobody with any training or experience in game design theory (they might give someone the title "game designer", but that doesn't suddenly confer them skills and knowledge they didn't have previously.) So where would you expect novel game mechanics--or even interest in "making games fun"--to come from?
Are the QR codes only used for manufacturing lines or tech support? It would be awesome if there was an open database where I could find replacement parts for particular devices.
Could you elaborate? The gap exists - that's why Chrome Apps (and Firefox OS apps for that matter) are provided with additional API to bridge the gap. Google and Mozilla are working on standardizing these APIs but until then, Chrome Apps/Firefox OS apps should be an active effort. In that context, I don't understand the Android support in Chrome OS.
A dozen SD card changes? What cards do you use? My camera shoots 20 MB RAW images, so that's 20 GB for a thousand. I have an SDHC 16 GB card that I got for $30-40 or so, and it's going to last me ages.

By the way, I think your post made me realize how professional photographers work: They shoot with burst and pick stuff out later.

I guess it makes sense, you want to maximize the odds of catching a great shot. I'm much more methodical, but maybe I shouldn't be.
% format is deprecated in the python spec.
Please enlighten us then, what CPU mined crypto currency is best for this?
Windows 9's new Start menu demonstrated on video
That's correct, that's my interpretation of the law.

But it's a minor point in the grounds, it's dicta at best.
The article seems widely confused. It goes from SD cards to 4K movies to HD movie storage to the cloud.
It may be seen as a decent way for accomplishing due diligence. Most accelerator programs will check out the company, product and team. This also helps Google avoid being the first investor in as most accelerators usually invest in projects in their program. That being said, you can still use Google's services for free as long as you're below the cap.
Remember when games just dropped you in a level ? I can't help but feeling bad at games chasing ceremony-wrapped photorealism.
Ebola: Fast-tracking treatments
Is this a real issue in some countries? I live in the UK and unless you are buying from the High Street there is usually always the option to purchase without Windows included.
Scientists make telepathy breakthrough
>Points 2-4 would involve Google violating (likely) their own Ts&Cs with customers and (possibly?) state/federal law

I don't think it does. Until recently, they seem to have been using the paid apps for Business e-mails to build advertising profiles with no repercussions.

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/04/protecting-stud...

I also don't think there's anything in the T&Cs for Google Drive(both free and business) that says that they won't use the contents of the docs for advertising purposes.
> Why is this a thing?

Because this isn't free for Google, so they are expending resources building relationships with the customers they think are most likely to provide more business in the future; so they aren't giving to any small business, they are giving it to businesses that have been vetted by groups they trust and are receiving capital with some kind of plan for expansion that would grow the startup's business -- and therefore the business that Google would see from the startup if the startup stayed on Google's platform.

> Not everyone wants to build their startup through venture capital, or an accelerator.

Sure, but the cost to Google to vet each individual startup to see if they were the kind of potential customer they'd like to expend these resources for would drive up the cost of providing the service. Google isn't a charity, its a for-profit business.

$100,000 in service credits plus 1:1 technical architecture reviews plus 24/7 support isn't something even Google can afford to provide to everyone.

So they outsource the work of screening by instead screening a smaller number of accelerators, incubators, etc.
> The annoyance I feel when people say "what would Jesus do?" is the same annoyance I feel when reading these articles about "what would Steve do?"

Interestingly Tim Cook has repeatedly said that Jobs' instruction to them when he was leaving was never to ask this, but to trust their own judgement. His fans may ask this but Jobs at least was smart enough to see the folly in it.

Obviously the problem with this is it creates a paradox. If I ask what would Jobs do, then Jobs wouldn't ask what Jobs would do. But if I follow that advice and don't worry about what Jobs would or wouldn't do, I start asking again, what would Jobs do?
Developing and printing, yes. But the photography is so much easier. You do have film changes though, with digital you have endless film. But I used to enjoy photography for its own sake when doing it on film and digitally it is more of a documentation tool for me.

For some reason I always seem to 'miss the moment' with digital and with film that rarely if ever happened.

Digital is all about convenience after you've pressed the shutter button.
Hourglass Interfaces for C++ APIs
Understanding the key differences between LXC and Docker
I lived near the A. Unfortunately not in NYC anymore.
Except for the fact the luring is the goal of the program.