skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback though I'm sure what do you mean by "copy paste view"?
Depth of field is biologically relevant. I can see more, better, when an area is well lit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field

Also your visual cells don't do color below a certain flux level, so brighter "world" means not just are the colors physically brighter, but your eyes can perceive colors "better".

Finally brightness is sometimes a side effect of smooth even writing. I have track lighting with 17 LED lamps in my basement to eliminate shadows. I use tracks instead of cans to make it very easy to adjust the position of light to where I'm working.

So there are at least three scientific appeals to bright light that were not covered in the article.
I figured out how you got the italic to escape your content.

End a message like this:

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Like this: .
Perhaps, but still - having sentient killing machine is a horrible prospect.
The thing is I don't think those are really image searches. If I take a picture of a car it's probably a car I can't afford so I'm not really looking for a dealer, I'm probably looking for either 1) what's the make/model, 2) where have I seen that before, 3) what year is?

For produce there are even more things I might be interested in. Is that a good tomato or what is that deformed looking red plant?

Essentially I'm saying that image searches have just never been useful for me without supplying textual context. Speech has the potential to help with that but just doesn't seem to work well in consumer devices yet. Speech will get there but image searches just aren't useful without speech or text.
Is FORTH homoiconic?
$ sbcl
* (defun nil (x y) (+ x y))
* (nil 3 4)
7

And there's really no way to systematically account for what may or may not be in the namespace without completely missing the point of homoiconicity.
So how do you suggest they tell someone is really an entrepreneur? Genuine question.

£200k is not a very huge amount of money by London standards. Maybe fully loaded cost of 2 senior developers for a year, if you get creative making it stretch.

Any threshold below that would effectively be a open doors situation.
Can a Computer Replace Your Doctor?
Reflected smartphone transmissions enable gesture control
> What other APIs would that be which offer this functionality?

Game console APIs.

> In D3D this used to be offloaded into a separate D3DX API, but AFAIK this is no longer supported in Windows8

DirectX is now integrated into the Windows SDK and makes use of new APIs:

Math is provided via DirectXMath.

Shaders can still be combined via Effects.

Interactions with the windowing system are done via DXGI.

Image loading is done via Windows Imaging Component.

> For OpenGL there's plenty of libraries to choose from, for instance:

Yes, I had to go library hunting already a few times. It gets tiring trying to see what are the current ones for people like myself that only occasionally do graphics stuff.

For example, a few years ago DevIL was the library to go for image loading.
The reactive manifesto – version 2
Having had a look at your website I have to say the whole going off the beach in Asia and doing some coding stuff seems quite a good idea.
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Stomach acid is pretty awful on your mouth though. And you would never drink raw vinegar.
>In general, you might be better off always using long unless there is a specific reason not to

I don't agree. That's trading off useful cache for almost invisible micro optimizations.

As a general rule, it's always better to use the smallest size possible.
I'd bet half the Oculus Rifts dev kits were in "enthusiast" hands and not serious developers. I think your assumption that every rift not sold to a dev is one less available to a dev, is incorrect. They've made 130,000 dev kits total. They're not precious.
> Nobody notices what brand of sneakers you're wearing... at least, I rarely even look down that far, and I can't believe other people are that different.

Believe it. Many are.
I found, that implementing a LISP in a language you know, helps understanding.

I saw one which worked with JavaScript arrays and eval(): ['add', 1 , 2] etc.

It was rather crude, but it helped me.

But I didn't go deeper and tried to understand how Homoiconicity could improve my code.
Actually I just ended the last word with an asterisk (as in to imply I was correcting my parent comment), completely forgot about its use for formatting. Have edited it out now.
The ads never mention that they actual asked 100 dentists, found 4 who recommended it, added one of the non recommending ones to make it seem less cheesy, resulting in 4 out of 5 that we picked recommending our product. There is no law requiring a mention of the other 95 opinions.
I think it's because of the way they're weighting "world class cultural assets".

It sounds like these are basically tourist spots. Museums, and national heritage sites and things like that. DC has got TONS of those sorts of things, so it would make sense that it would rank high (at least abnormally high in that category)
I dressed like an idiot at London Fashion Week to get street-snapped
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Really London has a buzz all of its own I get a buzz just getting of the train at black friars and looking down river and seeing tower bridge and the globe theatre.

I had a drink at lunch Friday on the site of shakespeare's house a stones thrown from St pauls.

Ok old street is a bit of a dump but don't let that put you off
I've lived in Toronto and I love-hate it. If the authors of the report had spent one day commuting to work in the city or looking for a condo to buy on an average salary I'm pretty sure Toronto wouldn't be up high in a "best city" ranking.
silicone valley in London would be Soho nudge nudge
Well by that logic, IE is a great browser because a lot of people got some amazing applications to run on it despite the fact that it was a nightmare to develop for...

OpenGL is almost like the IE of graphics development. You usually have to support it because it's so ubiquitous, but it constantly makes you want to tear out your hair because it does so many unexpected things and you have to memorize 5000 little caveats.
How they're made doesn't explain why they work or not. But having said that if that ad was run in the winter it could be interpreted in a very different way to if it was a summer campaign.
Can you not get an intra company transfer?
I think people who work in technology in the UK - in London at least - are remunerated similarly as well as, if not better than, the other more traditional professions, by which I mean lawyers, doctors, and teachers (the latter were always traditionally paid worse, but are paid a bit better now). Outside of London, it's probably a different story, where I think tech workers probably do worse on the whole.

If you work in tech and you feel hardly done by, and you're of the entrepreneurial sort, you can quite easily become a contractor and make an awful lot of money. I don't think that's so easily done in other professions.

There will always be outliers who make staggering amounts of money - a partner at a magic circle law firm, or a very high level accountant at one of the big four, might command seven figures rather than six; but we have those in tech too: CTOs.
This is a new API, not a new codebase. New APIs happen all the time.
Yelp fined $450k for violating COPPA
I'm guessing the work flow would be something like "I want intermittent rotation" except probably not expressed as literately. Maybe a sketch or a lot of babble along those terms gets searched on, whatever input format. If it works, maybe you find a Geneva mechanism.

If you have enough domain experience to search for "continuous rotation rotary intermittent rotary" then you'll find it, but if you are mechanically illiterate you may not know what intermittent means or rotary... maybe.

It would be a truly amazing display of AI to be given a really poor sketch of a Geneva mechanism, it'll find a really nice blueprint. I'd be impressed if this found the hypoid gear in a differential. I'd be more impressed if someone who doesn't understand the concept or reason for a torsen differential was able to none the less search it.

As a concrete example theres a pretty impressive lego torsen(-ish) diff out there. Its easy to find if you google for the terms. I'd be impressed if you could give a sketch to a search engine and find this lego diff.
What a racket-mode for emacs could really use is support for images in Racket files and for parsing the binary format thar DrRacket reverts to when a file contains images.
I've read this through twice, and I'm still confused. Can you explain this idea in a single sentence? Or describe how the customer journey works?

It sort of reads like "A customer comes to my website and asks me what's the best price I can do on a pair of Beats Headphones." Is that right?

Why would a customer enter a bartering phase with you, rather than just seeing that Amazon sells them for £x?
I tried to contact them to see if they'd be interested in selling, but have not heard back.

If anyone knows how to get in touch with a decision maker, contact me via my profile info.
Not my understanding at all and I used to work for a top 5 consulting engineer.

Ground workers are the people that prep the ground (ie paddy wi a shovel) a qualified chippy a or sparky is a different matter.

Btw did you know that for tech supervisors in mining the going rate for a single shift at the weekend is £2k and that's counting towards a FS pension!
That's not the job of a graphics API. It's a convenience utility that is not really feasible for OpenGL because it runs on so many platforms. You're asking for platform specific features on a cross platform library.
This is a great little idea. It's easy to forget that your files won't be served up as quickly in a production environment. Will be giving this a trial on my next project.
Apps for the next 3B people
I lived in London for ten years. There is a buzz, there is always something going on. Then I moved away. Then I came back to work in the west end and the city.

It was when I came back I noticed how tired, sick and depressed everyone looked. How long it takes to get anywhere. How crowded the streets are. And seriously, the dust and the smells are horrible.

If you're still in a phase of life where you enjoy it then best of luck to you. I really loved the place for a long time. Now... give me practically anywhere else. I like clean air and space.
Well it is very hard to hire anyone good at that rate in London. There is a rapid elevator as people go from inexperienced to more useful, so the first few years people should be getting good increases every year.

I am aware that there are a whole lot of marginally profitable firms trying to hire at these low rates, and that people do take these jobs, so there is a sort of "going rate", and there are companies who hire employees at low rates while hiring freelancers at triple rates as if they were permanent staff.

There are plenty of junior PHP+mysql developer jobs for example advertised in the 30-40k area, and that is with people paying 10k+ to a recruiter for the "service" - and thats a pretty low end skill with little value added.
Does anybody happen to have the video for this talk? I'd like to see it :)
I don't really have a complete idea of how the customer journey works for the time being. But basically the customer would come to the website and tell me what he wants to buy. I'll then create him a lower priced offer that's only for him. There wouldn't be a bartering phase. Instead, he gets a fixed price from me, one that's lower than what he has found earlier from Amazon.
I didn't found pricing information about your certs. I even tried to register to find these prices, but you asked me for my credit card. Sorry.
I am also frankly shocked that nobody took the username awkardpenguin before now.
Better alternative than Ello at http://sublevel.net/ which is already a few months old.
I used this extensively during a grad research project almost 6-8 years ago, and for anyone wondering about this, here was what I found:

1. Easy to set up / install

2. Command line tool - so easy to use in scripts / automation

3. Has plugins that let you index almost any file type - PDF, docs, etc.

4. If you want to index an unsupported type (say, index images by file name), you write a plugin yourself. Which wasn't too hard, IIRC.

For anyone asking about comparison with Lucene, etc, this is my take on it - Swish-e is really more a search tool that lets you get up and running with searches fairly easily, without too much overhead. I suspect that it might fall apart for more sophisticated search functionality - the type that Lucene really shines at.
Game console APIs have it easy though since they only support a single GPU and a single texture compression scheme. In the OpenGL world it is more tricky, especially on mobile since each GPU vendor used to only implement their own patent-infested compressed texture formats (this useless GPU-vendor-infighting held back OpenGL back more then anything else). And most of the Windows APIs you listed are not part of D3D, but either part of (what used to be) DirectX, or some completely unrelated part of the Windows API, and with this you've locked yourself into the Windows world. From your requirements it sounds like you're best served with SDL2 or a similar medium level wrapper API, at least if you want to support platforms outside of Windows.
I have no idea what's special about your idea. All I got was that you want to sell things cheaper than competition?...
I don't really think that's true, at least outside the financial sector.

That said I agree that contracting is the way to go, which is why I have been a contractor ever since I returned from Australia.

--edit-- apart from the teachers of course. They get paid very little. I believe this is true pretty much everywhere though?
Feel sorry for these people who have a street light bolted to their house wall by the bedroom windows.

http://imgur.com/osQ0ycb
It's not hard finding people; it's hard finding quality people because they've all moved to London for the salary or are self-employed.

When I say quality, I mean people who can pick up anything we throw at them and pick the right tech for the job rather than be tied to a tech platform, not Joe average ASP.Net webforms or Kate average Oracle monkey.

We need people who pick the tools for the job, not factory pressed programmers.

Also have you tried hiring anyone anywhere in the UK that can actually write C? Totally damn impossible even offering £120k.
Hursley is mostly a contractor pump these days or "Rational Rats" as we call them.

Spot on with the 6 figures comment. It's the place to be :)
That has been done before: see Flubit.
Did anyone compile and benchmark it?
How do you generate this personal-price?

Why should this remove the bartering phase and not transform it to a "hey lets look what prices my friends would get" or alternative services, where people post their personal prices for products to compare them?
Walmart - $480 Billion revenue, 2.2 million employees, $218,000 per employee per year.
So that is a company dealing in physical goods, and it kind of fits.
Ouch - that sucks badly!
They may "have no clue" but it seems like that's only because they don't care and haven't looked. I don't see anything in the article that would prevent the providers from figuring this out unless I'm missing something.
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Things would be sold cheaper than competition and that's right. However, the unique part of the idea is to keep the price private - it is only revealed to the buyer who has already decided he wants to buy that item. This would be the solution for small to mid size retailers in getting sales diverted to them from those big players. Prices are kept private for a reason - to soften the onset of price competition.
>But basically the customer would come to the website and tell me what he wants to buy. I'll then create him a lower priced offer that's only for him.

So... a worse version of a price comparison website? Instead of showing the best price, you want to show only a price better than customer's previous? Why wouldn't people just use a normal price comparison website which shows the cheapest offer?
Applies to my company (GrantTree), huh.

However I know that one of our competitors had 7 employees in their first year and, because they mistakenly published their full accounts, I also know they made just £80k of revenue that year.

So it doesn't necessarily apply to all companies.
Interesting that Hong Kong topped the list. I have only spent 1 1/2 days in Hong Kong but I really liked it. A friend moved there about five years ago because he could get long term research funding (for AI) and he seems to like it there.

This study is ranking for best cities, interesting enough, but I would like to see rankings of best places to live, in cities or not. I like to visit beautiful cities but live in the mountains.
Vulpes: A functional approach to deep machine learning on the GPU [video]
Or you could just get their annual accounts from the business registry, and see what they've reported there.

[won't be up-to-the-minute accurate, of course, and won't work for all jurisdictions. But it's a data source that far too few people use, IME]
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cost-reduction is also a function of productivity. We see that - at least since the industrial revolution - every doubling of production reduces cost 20-30%. It's the same whether we're talking about cars, shoes, planes, or solar panels.
Amazon's prices are already dirt cheap because of their economy of scale. You'll find it hard to compete with them for very long except where they have loss leaders. Same with eBay. eBay would be even harder because most things are way cheaper than market price or eBay exclusive.

N.B. Amazon has never really made profit because Bezos keeps pouring profit back into Amazon to make prices lower and to keep customers happier.
If someone is paying the bill, do they really care?
I think only the load balancer would be vulnerable to discovery. Everything behind the load balancer could be a secure connection to a completely different datacenter if needed.
I think there's a misunderstanding here. The price will not be found elsewhere. It will be a price that's created by me based on several factors - one being the lowest price available in the market.
> creating not only a better deal for ... employees

Oh, please. They are cutting salaries severely as soon as you leave London.
How to Pick a Lifestyle Consistent with Your Passion
My argument doesn't rely on dentists being experts on toothpaste. It relies on them knowing more than I do about toothpaste, on average.

I can think of plausible mechanisms that would discriminatingly push an unusually good toothpaste to the top of dentists' recommendations. Offhand, I can't think of any that would discriminatingly push an unusually bad toothpaste up there.

By "discriminatingly", I mean that e.g. advertising would work just as well for a good toothpaste as a bad one. But "the evidence suggests that this toothpaste is actually really good" is more likely to show up for a good toothpaste than a bad one. And I can't think of anything which is more likely to recommend a bad toothpaste than a good one.

So if I think there's a 90% chance that toothident is only recommended because of advertising, then I have no reason to think that toothident is particularly good or bad; but if there's a 10% chance that dentists do actually have a reason to recommend toothident, then I should use toothident, because I have no reason to favour anything else.

Certainly there are cases where this goes wrong, but I never claimed it was infallible.
Carry the 1.
YC's Sam Altman likes 'genuineness' of Waterloo startup scene
8 affordable tools to help optimize for conversion
Nothing Carmack does is ever boring. This man is a huge inspiration for me.
The first time TPB was raided they took a bunch of unrelated servers too. Not sure how discriminating the police will be next time, regardless of VMs.
Well, as the recent article about modernizing less showed, such old projects frequently do show their age.
Is the goal that the user will enter a binding contract to buy without knowing what they'll pay?

There already is price competition. Anyone who can Google for 5 minutes can find the lowest price, and that's probably fulfilled by Amazon or another large retailer. The idea that you'll carry every product, offer a lower price than Amazon, and convince people to participate in this weird pricing scheme is pretty absurd.
How are you going to be able to sell items for less than Amazon?
Time doesn't really exist
There are entire blocks in the Sunset District of San Francisco that appear to be an almost-flat expanse of concrete. The concrete is not flat but rather slightly domed (convex). These are covered reservoirs.
After reading this FAQ I got an impression that language with built-in AST reflection capabilities (i.e. equivalent of quasiquotes) should be considered homoiconic in a sense that the language exposes code as data. For example: Scala [1], Elixir [2] and Julia [3] all have native AST manipulation capabilities. But are those languages homoiconic?

[1] http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/quasiquotes/intro.html

[2] http://elixir-lang.org/getting_started/meta/1.html

[3] http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual/metaprogrammin...
By working within the commission charges by Amazon. I know this is hard.
Math for Game Programmers – Vector Cheat Sheet
Why you should work for a startup at least once
Any of you guys know what's gonna happen to the time capsule letters? I sent one I was supposed to receive 10 years from now and I'd be bummed if that got lost "in the mail" lol. I'm afraid I know the answer to this though :(
The mind-churn is not anxiety always, but consciousness of the sheer gravity of what you are doing.

The "vast spectrum of human misery" exists unless or until someone's mind-churn waking them up at night results in viable solutions and real growth.

It's not one or the other, both are linked situations. There is a seriousness about all the "preoccupation" ... it's even natural and organic in the sense that it is how one hand washes the other in the grand scheme of it all.
How are they doing?
Flux can go far past matching incandescent. I generally set it to get rid of the vast majority of non-red light when activated. Removing green is more benefit than harm because it overlaps the critical blue range somewhat.
Protecting What's Best About the Internet
Is there any ETA for OpenGL-next?
So after a less than 5 year old grows up, why would they switch to a more antiquated form of search? They now have a level of expectation that voice search works and when it doesn't the software sucks.
If the load balancer is the weak point that would be first to be discovered, then I imagine they must have some mechanism to stop it leaving evidence that leads to the other machines if it were to get raided (it isn't on their hardware, so they can't prevent the files being backed up).

Is there a way the codebase could be entirely encrypted and not even accessible to the cloud provider (with some 'boot password' needed each time the server starts up)?
What OpenGL does is hard - to make things worth fast across multiple platforms with backward compatibility. Not like IE which was/is stagnant because of big company sluggishness/exceptionalism, but because its open source trying to do a huge amount with limited resources. There are always higher level platforms if you want something easier to work with, but you sacrifice a little speed.
There is no reason not to have OpenGL there, besides the jerkiness of console manufacturers. Hopefully Steam Machines can put an end to such situation.
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