skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting idea, personally I think it might be just a bit a head of the curve for general public at the moment. I think the rate limiting factors here are bandwidth/camera quality. As mobile data speed improve and mobile cameras improve as well this could really be a game changer and I can see even in a few years something like this really taking off.
The sticking point is that banks don't want to invest in a new system unless they can shift liability to the consumer, which is unpopular for very good reasons.
I think Sam et al are more than capable of sending an email to this guy if they take issue.
Weren't they recently valued around $10b[1]? They'd need to grow a lot to make Alibaba-level money on Snapchat. And Snapchat would have to really find a way to monetize eyeballs without losing them.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/27/technology/innovationnation/...

Edit: Apparently the round hasn't closed yet, so they would be a part of the $10b round. I think my point still stands!
Thanks, that's what I was thinking of but I couldn't think of the name.
I think the question was more about whether this specific type of ship (triple E) better protects them against pirate attacks.

I was wondering the same thing (if they engineered the ship differently to better stop pirate attacks).
i'm not sure you could make that arguement since they don't use the same materials. container ships are mostly steel while airplanes are a mix of aluminum, cabron fiber and titanium
pretty much. every single thing used to make a plane has to pass a shitload of tests, that is what adds the cost. I think it costs about a million dollars to test the wing of a plane like a 747, one wing.
I haven't found anything that doesn't work either automagically or with explicit annotations[0].

[0]: https://github.com/olov/ng-annotate#explicit-annotations
Cranes, ports in the Americas don't have cranes with the reach to unload the wide ship. Some EU and Asian cranes had to be replaced and their teams retrained, but US port technology lags significantly behind Europe's and Asia's. The two unions representing dockworkers have fought to minimize automation which means more time in port which makes it less attractive to the ship companies. Progress is being though made and hopefully US can catch up in the next few years.
Yes, let's blame the bad economy on technology. I mean, it couldn't have been Wall-street's fault or Washington's fault.
Since the shell where I wrote the command is still executing, the .bash_history has no mention of it (bash saves the commands in the history file when it exits). As for the up arrow, it would mean interrupting the commands - and I didn't want to :-)
Chase is actually well-known for investing significantly more resources on security than their competitors.
3D printing isn't magic, it's just a technique. What will be more important is fully automated manufacturing and configurable manufacturing. 3D printing is just the easiest form of such technology. In, say, 50 years you'll be able to upload a design for something to a service and have a factory produce it with little human intervention and very little delay. But it won't be manufactured using solely 3D printing techniques, there'll be "traditional" machining, casting, assembly, soldering, etc. involved, it'll just all be automated.
Let me be first here to say thanks for this. I was looking for a way to listen to the lectures on my daily subway commute.
Lol, you are probably right. I bet these get money thrown at them from investors that don't respect accelerators (there are lots of them). They have over 40k users (probably more now) and charge 20$ per month. Close to 1m a month in revenue. They don't need investment or an accelerator at this point.

I think it was a brilliant self marketing tactic. And then they have the balls to post it here, lol... Love it. I think we are all witnessing a genius marketing stunt that is going to be the topic of discussion in the future.
But I think that's the point: when we attempt to "frame" nature in terms of agency, our dialectic often drifts toward "I" and bias. It's all rather circular.

Perhaps Aristotle and George would have been good friends?
There is nothing inherently wrong with making judgments based on one's expertise. That's pretty much what expertise is good for.
This is a Cisco technology: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/wireless-mobility/...

Something tells me there is more to this story.
Yahoo right now(and when they bought Tumblr)

http://a.pomf.se/gsxzwx.jpg
Wat? The premise has always been fewer jobs. What our entrenched societal institutions end up doing with this change is a different matter.
For those interested in details about participation rates, demographics, etc, you can start diving in with Calculated Risk's info and analysis here:

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/10/september-employme...

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/10/comments-on-employ...
They were sending deauth packets.
I have a crappy memory. I tried med school for a year. In all my pre-med and medical courses, they constantly warned us to understand, not memorize. I gladly took their advice, tried to understand rather than rote-memorize, and I ended up flunking 5 exams, which finished my medical career.

The fact is, in many fields of human endeavor, you need to memorize before you can think. Would we have better physicians if they weren't required to memorize and spit out so much rote information? Not sure about that. I think a good doc not only has great personal and intuitive skills, he or she needs good analytical skills and a "think outside the box" problem solving mentality similar to that of a really good computer programmer (which I thought I had, hence crossing over into medicine from computers).

But, a doc also needs to remember stuff. There's so much data and you need to remember signs and symptoms, case histories, and see the similarities and differences with previous cases you've had.

The OP was about math, and I'm definitely in the memorize-the-formula camp; I've never really grasped the theoretical niceties of mathematics and am more of a connect-the-dots kind of guy. But definitely there are similarities between learning math and learning the physical and biological sciences. Some of it is intuitive, but some of it is just wacky stuff out of left field and you have to just take it on faith.

I think we need to emphasize critical thinking and analysis more, but we also need to teach the ancient Greek and Roman methods of memorizing, e.g. the memory palace method -- see Moonwalking with Einstein for more details.
Yeah; I think I see what you're saying and I agree. Subjectively this seems to be the benefit for me. It seems to allow myself to reset to an almost default cognitive state when I recognize certain negative emotions/stress.
At scale, mass tends to be less critical than bulk, and bulk is the primary unit of containerized shipping. Density, tends to correlate to efficient transport.
A very poor indicator, given that it doesn't count workers who have given up looking for a job because none were available.
One of the wing tests:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2HmvAXcU0

"This Boeing 777 wing was tested to destruction, finally breaking at one fifty four percent (154%) of the designed limit load."
Billions flowing into the country does not mean that they will be distributed to those in need. But even if they are, a lot of people need those 100mil now and cant wait for billions later. Unless we accept the poverty percentage of India as an axiom. No pun intended.
And let's not forget: NSA already have an almost-irresistibly useful database designed for exactly this purpose (selecting and correlating on attributes of SIGINT-captured SSL/TLS sessions, such as certificates - and they could easily just put a selector on the CommonName or the certificate fingerprint).

You don't have to be the NSA to make a database like that, but it helps. I could build a database broadly like that for certificates/ciphersuites/other metadata myself with active scanning and zmap (and it might make a good weekend project, to examine and contrast RC4 proliferation amongst TLS-encrypted web and mail servers) - but they have a near-realtime-updating passively-constructed one. If the FBI asked them for help, they'd definitely use that.
The majority of the 787 Dreamliner is carbon fiber for weight reduction.
Why doesn't the widget go in its own folder?
Mozilla, the corporate backer of Persona, decided to end new feature development on it because of low adoption. Because of this, and very low usage numbers on our end, we decided to remove support.
I've looked at a bunch of these math compendiums while researching what to include in my book, and this one seemed the best so far: http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Content-Methods-Meaning-Do... The writing isn't very hand-holdy, but it covers a lot of important topics, and without too much fluff.

For a more "math for general culture" I'd recommend this one: http://www.amazon.ca/Mathematics-1001-Absolutely-Everything-... which covers a lot of fundamental topics in an intuitive manner.

I have both books on the shelf, but not finished reading through all of them so I can't give my full endorsement, but from what I've seen so far, they're good stuff.
It's because the baby boomers don't know how to use technology, and they're still holding positions they should have retired from 5 years ago. This has many widespread effects, one of which is the 'if it ain't broke, don't fix'. People are still using Windows XP in their day-to-day jobs for christ-sake.

The digital revolution hasn't happened because it's being held back by dinosaurs.
That's a lovely paragraph, evocative and well written.
Yes, I go to Hacker News to read things which aren't controversial. Sigh.
I had the same reaction to this as many others have, in that I think much of this stuff is good/fine, but the advice that engineering leadership shouldn't actually directly contribute in a technical fashion is wrongheaded. I have elaborated on this in the past[1], but in particular, I don't think it's reasonable to expect to be the "tie breaker" in what is (tautologically) a sharp divide on an engineering team when you no longer contribute: as a non-contributor, you will be relying on what people are telling you instead of your own engineering judgement.

But my objection to the advice that management should not contribute technically is actually deeper than technical conflict resolution. Software is so hard that it becomes like child birth in that we have an overwhelming bias to forget the pain: the second you stop writing software, you start rewriting your own history. So as far as you can remember, it was all pretty straightforward, you always hit your deadlines, etc. And with this, you have started down the primrose path in which you just can't understand why this is taking so long and can't you guys just get all of the bugs fixed?! I (like many -- if not most -- software engineers) have seen this first hand: one of the most technical people I've ever worked with ventured into management, stopped writing software entirely, and -- with astonishingly short latency -- forgot over a decade of experience of pain. He forgot the inifinite complexity of software, and instead assumed that bugs were due to a lack of urgency, laziness, or worse. At one point, we were getting crushed by a very nasty issue, and he called a meeting to spend an hour telling us how important it was (oh, thanks!) and that he "didn't want to hear details; just get it fixed". If he had only asked "what I can do to help?", I was ready with: "You are -- or at least were -- a damned good engineer; you can help us debug it."

This brings me to a slightly broader point: as technical leadership, I believe that direct contribution is essential, but you do need to be very careful about how you contribute. The last thing you want is to be on the critical path of some feature and have the team blocked because you've been called into a board meeting (or a customer visit or an off-site or a planning meeting or any of the other of zillions of ways in which organizational leadership must spend some portion of their time). For me personally, the answer this is particularly easy because it dovetails with what I love to do anyway: my way of directly contributing to my team is to debug. By picking up bugs that no one else is looking at, you're out of the critical path, but you are helping the team, staying technically current, and reminding yourself -- constantly! -- of the brutal complexity of software engineering.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/surge2013 video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGkVM1B5NuI
Программа для ask.fm, которая позволит узнать анонима и не только
Ggg
The station is "Terminus". Watch out for the lady grilling ribs.
The Dreamliner is the 787.
Predictable "good news" on unemployment with elections looming.
Being Polish and having been multiple times to Gdansk I'm pretty surprised such a huge ship can even dock there. Good to know Poland can actually receive goods straight from SE Asia without reloading.
On the other hand it doesn't explain how the same electronic equipment (and other luxury goods) is nearly always cheaper in Germany and sometimes even in the UK.
Works out of the box on Ubuntu LTS, Raspberry pi hell it even worked back in 2000 on Cygwin out of the box on win2k.
How to Increase your Productivity
Google Reportedly Working on Its Mobile Chat App to Rival WhatsApp
This is possibly better called a list of framework design mistakes made by the AngularJS team.

#3: The fact that the default dependency injection mechanism breaks when minified means it should never have been included. If this mechanism sneaks in anywhere in your app (and there are plenty of third party libs that use it), it wont start breaking until you bundle and minify the code, at which point you may already be in production.

#5: The service/factory distinction adds a conceptual complexity that is completely unnecessary, as demonstrated in this blog post.

#7: Having too many watchers will slow your app down to a crawl on a desktop machine, and be even worse on a phone. This happens more easily than you'd think and it's fundamentally caused by Angulars reliance on its digest loop. This loop is the essence of how Angular works, and it means that there are tons of applications that cannot ever run efficiently if they're built on Angular.

8#: Because of the way their $scope system works, it is actually literally impossible to tell what the the meaning of ng-model="foo" is by reading the program. It may in fact depend on the order in which the user interacts with elements of the web page. Consider this example: http://jsfiddle.net/7kkxLkxh/ What foo binds to is dependent on which input you type into first. Yes, there are ways to avoid this, but it should have been avoided by either disallowing this construct, or requiring foo to be declared before it is used. (If you miss a var in JS, you get a global - that turned out to be bad language design. Removing the var keyword and effectively deciding on variable scope at runtime is certainly a much worse language design.)

After working on a large Angular project, it is clear to me that there are a lot of ideas in there that are frankly not good. It's sad that there seems to be very little discussion anywhere about the downsides of the various frameworks that are out there.
Thanks, I didn't pay enough attention to that.

A simple fix is to run some `iptable` commands in the discovery service and allow only the servers listed in `announce/services` to connect.
ISIS does not represent Islam #NotInMyName
John Hennessy founding MIPS is the canonical example. Burt Rutan at Scaled Composites is another. But we're not just talking famous guys like them. At the root of most Pharma M&A are mid-sized R&D companies that get bought because of their patents. And it's not just pharma either. To pick a random recent Qualcomm acquisition, take Black Sand Technologies, which has IP in the area of power amplifiers. The company's chief technologist and co-founder is http://www.austinventures.com/team/entrepreneurs/susanne-pau..., MIT PhD with 45 patents to her name.

There is a huge blind spot on HN as to how other sectors of the engineering world work. If you're in wireless, you can't found a startup that directly targets consumers. If your innovation is a better power amplifier or more efficient transmission power control mechanism, your best bet is to start a company to develop the IP, and use that to get acquired by Qualcomm or Intel. And your alternative is to work for a big corp where all the fruits of your R&D efforts will go to passive shareholders. Or I suppose to work at a government R&D lab, where some private company will swoop in and take all the money once you've done the hard work.
Those are 40' containers if that helps. So you could fit a couple large high-school football stadiums end to end and still have room for the stands and concessions.

EDIT: Just looked it up. I was way off. Over 4 HS football stadiums (including stands) end to end. Just 8' shy of a quarter-mile in length. And about the height of a 4 story building.
When is this?
And right now ports like Long Beach can't deal with the incoming container traffic. Currently, it's a struggle for a trucker to find a chassis now.

These huge ships can create huge variations in the total TEU (twenty foot equivalent units) coming in at any given time. Containers can get lost under incoming containers for days/weeks because the port is playing Jenga.

I guess my point is that someone has to figure out the destination side logistics that will arise with ever increasing amounts delivered all at once.
The largest cargo ships are now built against the constraints of the Suez Canal (based on its draft and a bridge on the route), as the Panama canal constraints are much more limiting.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panamax
This is hardly news. The origin locale and timeframe (acquired zoonotically from Chimpanzees north of Kinshasa, probably around 1908, travelling by river to Kinshasa and Brazzaville, where social conditions permitted amplification and adaptation to human hosts) have been strongly supported by evidence for about a decade. David Quammen discusses it in detail in his book "Spillover". While this study adds more evidence supporting the theory, that area and timeframe was pretty much accepted as fact in the research community for some time.
Thanks for all the free money!
What a beautiful article. What a shame so many people here didn't read it. If you're in this thread to bicker about train regulations and government spending, stop wasting your time and read the story that was shared with you. It's beautiful.
cant wait for the inflation to pick up -.-
Thank you! I corrected my typo.
Perjury requires that you are knowingly lying.
I've never even heard of drweb....I dont see any other security companies reporting on this.
My chinese is probably more rudimentary than yours, but I often use a firefox plugin that helps you get some idea of what the sentence means: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/perapera-kun-... (note it recognizes expressions, instead of working only character by character ... )
God please Melissa do not buy anything!
ng-annotate works just fine with regular angular controllers/filters/providers/services/etc. definitions, but I would not trust it for special injections found in such stuff such as $state definitions with resolves and maybe $get with the factory returned by a provider.
how does yahoo actually generate revenue now?
the only people I know of that mainly use Yahoo mail are in countries like India where ads are worth next to nothing, and nobody uses Yahoo search. Is it just from ads on their properties?
This is unrelated to your decision to turn down Techstars, but do you expect people not to notice the resemblance of your introductory video to this ad by Apple? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZmIiIXuZ0
Actually, if they had stayed a little longer on Ali Baba, they would've had an even bigger cash-out.
I tried this on Digital Ocean a while back. Seemed pretty decent.
Hmm. I've never heard of drweb.com before, and there's no instructions on how to detect the worm, but they want to sell me anti-virus software.

This might be legit, but I'll wait and see if this appears anywhere else before I trust it as being valid.
For more information on Mozilla's announcement re: Persona in March, see http://identity.mozilla.com/post/78873831485/transitioning-p....
Earth, Air, and Space Educational Foundation
These days it seems to be from investing. Alibaba, now apparently SnapChat.
Isn't it really productivity OR jobs? A smaller number of productive workers can accomplish the same finite amount of "work" as a greater number of less-productive workers.

Welcome to the Industrial Revolution.
To the people dissatisfied with the headline unemployment rate, we can also look at the U5 unemployment rate, which includes discouraged workers. It tells roughly the same story as the headline rate, U6 which includes part-for-economic-reasons workers seems to be falling a bit faster than the headline rate:

http://www.macrotrends.net/1377/u6-unemployment-rate
When you don't include short-term discouraged workers, it's easier to get better headline numbers even if the overall trend is about the same. Adding an estimate for long-term discouraged workers, it's not quite as clear that unemployment is reducing: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart...
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