skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A minimal effort tool for the average person to break into the crypto markets? This could really help change the perception that crypto currency is only something for computer geniuses.
HRM apps for Startups?
What are some good and cheap HRM solutions for Startups and mid-size cos?
That is a form of debt slavery and violates their human rights in a number of ways
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This unscientific narrative is dangerous. ADHD can go away over the years, without medication. But you can't predict it, and there is no evidence for particular causes of "remission".

More stimulation is hardly the answer to the social problems arising from ADHD, to drug addictions or a myriad of other problems patients have. It certainly doesn't work against depression, and good luck curing 5-10% of children just by "stimulating" them more.

Coping with ADHD means improving Attention and Focus. The single most effective way is medication. Additionally mindfulness/awareness meditation has been shown to work. Other activities like martial arts or dancing may have similar effects, but less reliably so.
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Interesting – but isn't this starting with the assumption that there is a possible combination of words or actions that the AI could employ which would work on a human? What if no possible combination exists?

I feel that the bigger and more immediate threat is the misuse of AI by human beings against other human beings. Governments are already abusing it.
"intention surplus" interesting, this makes a lot of sense.
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You can't rely on exercise to treat ADHD. It may prove beneficial, but medication is clearly more effective.
I have no problem encouraging people who want to be part of our country to immigrate, particularly if they have good skills. This H1B program, though - it's just got to go.
Complete speculation
MS Office for iOS has been out for a while, those apps are excellent and fully touch enabled. you can download them for free, use the for reading and presenting files. edit mode is available through a office365 subscription.

mind you, MS Office for WinModern does not exist - no touch UI there. but it does for iOS. absolutely amazing.
Now show all those demos, without relying in clang.

We in the real world have to use compiler toolchains specified by our customers.

Do you also have demos for:

- Navigate in binary files

- Semantic refactory

- Background compilation

- Debug unit tests

- Cross reference to source control checks and software tracking issues

- Parallel code debugging

- Visualization of C++ data structures

- Semantic code navigation

- Database integration

- UML diagrams with two way code editing

- UI design

- Integration with application servers

- Graphical visualization of profiling data

- ...

Emacs is a fine software, but it is stuck in the past.
What's wrong about it? You should just charge more in expectations that the job won't last long and you can work at different company on different game mechanics after getting fired. Employing people you do not need is not efficient for both the company and economy.
Absolutely not true.

My iPad was unplugged by my kid during an update and the iPad shut off.

2 weeks later I had my iPad back from he Apple Store after it was bricked.

What I'm saying is that PICNIC will happen no matter what device your using. Calling out MS for rolling back after a user mistake just shows you aren't a fan of MS and will jump at any chance to knitpick them.
Making a big difference at a startup actually feels worthwhile when you can trust that the people around you also are making a big difference. Otherwise, it's just pitifully useless work.

I agree with this, of course, and would bear the same opinion if things actually worked for me.

This was my experience this year and I am now glad I have a regular salary now (in a medium-size public company ... the monotony is a relief. :))
A govt. is a cartel with a history book.
Cookie Clicker

http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
Here's another: http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/11/01/what-happened-to-virgin...

Where Raul Simberg makes the point that the fallacy of sunk costs is likely in play:

I also suspect that this will be the nail in the coffin for the hybrid program. Many in the industry (including me) told Virgin after the fatal test-stand explosion in 2007 that they needed to redesign and go to a liquid engine, but they had designed the airframe for the hybrid, and a liquid would have had different mass characteristics, probably necessitating a spacecraft redesign, which they were loath to do. The company appears to have been stuck in a “sunk cost” trap for years, with the belief that, despite all the years of delays, just a little more money and a little more time would finally get them to a workable engine. Yesterday morning, the trap snapped shut.
FreeBSD is the OS I switched to after one Linux distro after another refused to run properly on my hardware. I don't boot it often, but if I want to do some good old fashioned Unix hacking, it's my first choice from here on out.
It's a way of namespacing commands—if you install NERDCommenter, for example, <leader>cc comments out the current line (whereas cc by itself changes the current line). It's traditionally bound to backspace, which is actually-free, but many people bind it to keys that are free but never used personally.
The Graying of Academia: Will It Reduce Scientific Productivity? (2010) [pdf]
The tablet itself already had USB and DisplayPort. Just buy a USB keyboard and Ethernet adapter, and you get everything you listed for way less than $220 the docking station costs.
Travels in the New Psychedelic Bazaar (2013)
Is Psychometric g a Myth?
These numbers would be more helpful by stating your level/years of experience and nationality/location.
One of the biggest disadvantages Linux has over Windows is the lack of driver support from hardware manufactures. Is the situation with FreeBSD comparable, or better, or worse?
Thanks for reply. Can you shed some light on notice period policy by companies? Many companies have reasonable period like 2 weeks to a month, however some ask for like 2-3 months.
I would never have guessed the actual meaning of that. It sounds negative, as if it would mean "using the wrong (underpowered) tool for the job", but I'm guess I'm taking it too literally!
That's the thing -- it's a testbed for a lot of experimental, some would even say unnecessary, technologies.

Just like Linux taught me to appreciate FreeBSD, FreeBSD taught me to appreciate OpenBSD. OpenBSD -- the world's simplest and most secure Unix-like OS. Creator of the world's most used SSH implementation OpenSSH, the world's most elegant firewall PF, the world's most elegant mail server OpenSMTPD, and the OpenSSL rewrite LibreSSL. OpenBSD -- the cleanest kernel, the cleanest userland and the cleanest configuration syntax.

Ref. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=139321387226212

http://itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/62641-crypto-...
What neuroscience startups do you know?
what neuroscience start-ups do you know?
In my home country it could already drink since it was 16.
Would be interesting if we could share some actual numbers.

http://www.music-map.com has about 100k monthly users.
Exactly - and those trade offs will be handles at the library level.
doodle.io
This will be a little off topic since the last time I tried C# and .Net was many years ago (I was getting prepped to write a book on J2EE, and I wanted to spend a week using the competition first, to get a more balanced point of view):

I want to praise Microsoft's BizSpark program. I was accepted a few months ago after I submitted my plan for a SaaS product. I am using Ubuntu servers on Azure, and Azure works well - fewer services than AWS, but a comparable developer's experience to AWS and Google's offerings. I definitely recommend looking into BizSpark if you are interesting in developing an SaaS business. Since I am using Linux, Haskell, and Ruby I am not really locked into using Azure, but if my SaaS product is successful, I will probably keep using Azure in gratitude for $150/month of free Azure use for up to 3 years.

In general my attitude about Microsoft improved a lot earlier this year after trying their Office 360 product that works on all of my devices (MacBook, iPad, and Android phone). I like the direction the new CEO is taking the company.
Dart's Async / Await is here
Their paid to not quite get it.
Fast lanes are just one horrible side effect of our "everything capitalism" country.

The fact that most cities in the USA are duopolies when it comes to wired internet means essentially everyone is screwed.

Even if the FCC was strict with them, it wouldn't matter.

I pay $45/mo for 5mbps in 2014. Higher speeds are available but at much greater cost, because there is no competition.
How Katz’s stays in business against the odds
Happy birthday. Where would FreeBSD be, if Linux didn't shown up in the scene...
Who needs "nefarious" backdoors, when Microsoft can just present them as "features" for users, that law enforcement can use just as easily, if not more so than a backdoor?

I'd love for Microsoft to do out-of-the-box encryption while keeping the keys in the TPM, in all Windows 10 laptops, just like Android 5.0 and iOS 8.0, but it's not going to happen. Microsoft has too much of a cozy relationship with law enforcement to do something like that.

It's not just a coincidence that it is the first company to join PRISM, or that Skype was added to PRISM not when it was owned by the Swedish, not when it was owned by eBay, but the same month Microsoft announced its acquisition.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Prism_sli...
http://strawpoll.me/ - create simple straw polls that anyone can answer at a unique link. Every game streamer I watch uses it daily. Dead simple to use and a memorable name.
What do you play and who instructed you to set the metronome to 1 & 3? (I'm a percussionist who's always used a quarternote counting metronome)
Thanks, we definitely aim to go in that direction. Bitcoin was the easiest to implement from the start (due to the WAY higher availability of APIs/libraries) but overall our vision is a platform for passive, casual investment into the entire cryptocurreny ecosystem. Could get even more interesting if something like swarm.co takes off - where it becomes commonplace for companies to issue their own cryptocurrency. At what point do we cross into the realm of traditional share purchasing, and what baggage will we bring/which will we leave behind in making this transition? I wish I knew. At this point, we just want to provide a platform that makes it all more accessible.
Stop and think what is needed for a human army to be effective. You need everything from nuclear physicists to cooks to keep things running. Each of those people was first and foremost the results of 4 billion years of evolution which solved the hard problems of visual object detection and body calibration. Yet for each of the hundreds of thousands of such people you still needed parents to keep them from killing themselves between the age of 2-10 as a full time job and then 300 years worth of culture to get them to the point where they were useful for anything at all.

There is a world of difference between being able to build an AI that can do one thing, and an AI that can do everything a person can.
Note: the OP asked about W2 earnings which implies, among other things, that the employer is paying part of your taxes.

I don't do a lot of RoR work but it does come up occasionally. My day job is salary but it works out to about $60 per hour (w2). However, when I do occasional freelance work, I charge $125 per hour - but its 1099 income where I pay all of the taxes, not w2. (Both are remote.)
Wow! I just realized FreeBSD is about as old as I am! FreeBSD is a great system, and going from Windows to Ubuntu to FreeBSD was a fun transition, one I recommend for anybody willing to learn more about computers.

Recently a new book came out too for FreeBSD, I'll see if I can post it here without some sort of referral link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321968972/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl...

I managed to get one of my professors to purchase the book as well, and it was a nice piece of material for Intro to Operating Systems.
Great post, thanks for writing it.

Since you mentioned you're using vim keybinding yourself, I thought I'd mention that any time you type x$ (where x stands for delete, change, yank, etc), it's better expressed as X[1]. You mentioned c$, but C is the same thing.

[1] - Vim actually breaks this pattern on y—Y is the same as yy out of the box. But almost every vimrc I've seen remaps Y to y$ for consistency.
I know I was vaguely looked at the 4% consuls as investment before the crash they where selling for around
60/70 in 2008
Comparable, but slightly worse. A large portion of the drivers that exist for Linux are relatively easily ported to FreeBSD, especially the big ones like Nvidia. But not all of them, so the situation is a bit worse.

FreeBSD isn't as commonly used as a desktop/workstation though. People do it (I have one over in a corner), but support for every mouse and dongle under the sun isn't quite as high priority. Stuff like ethernet drivers that matter for servers have really good support in my experience.
http://www.worldtimebuddy.com
The US government does the same thing to the American students they give "CyberCorps" scholarships to. They have an obligation to remain in government jobs for the same number of years that they received the scholarship for and if they want to leave early they have to repay the scholarship.

https://www.sfs.opm.gov/
Maybe the general public can gofundme Tom Wheeler 40 or 50 million dollars to compensate him for for the bribe we're asking him to sacrifice.
Apart from the article, nautil.us is such a great platform that provides great content all the time. I'd read anything published on it even if I have no clue about the topic.
I am not sure if your response is relevant to the article, but I felt that there is some level of superiority complex that you and many fellow humans posses (in this case, about your superior knowledge and intellect).

Perhaps the biggest difference between you and someone applying for the job through the h1b visa program was that they were born in a different set of circumstances than you were. They were likely born in India whereas you were born I the United States. As a result of being born in India, they went to a local school there which didn't teach them about hash tables and concurrency. Your school did, and you had a better education. This person from India is trying to make a better life for himself despite starting at a disadvantage in life(being born in a poor country with access to lesser educational opportunities than you). You are welcome to reject him for the job(you can do so at the resume screening state, especially if they don't have the relevant skills and experience) but I think it would be useful to remember that the other person is a human, likely disadvantaged, and express some human empathy.
It's pretty neat :) I'm building one myself, about 20k users atm. (more targeted at getting to the content though)

http://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV/
Thanks! I'm on the nightlies now, and things are going a lot more smoothly :)
Ask HN: What's a fair/common hourly rate for Android Development?
Hi,

I've been developing and designing Software, Web-Apps and Add-Ons for customers for 5 years now. I usually charged 50EUR/h for non time-critical stuff and raised that to 70EUR/h for critical requests and Sysadmin work.

a) What should I charge for developing and designing native Android Apps?

b) Do you charge differently for Cross-Mobile Development using Frameworks like Qt/PhoneGap/Sencha/Titanium and similar?

PS: Do you know some free/opensource software for running your business?

I currently use Dolibarr [1] and it's awesome, but it's code is unmaintainable and it's not customer friendly. Contract/customer/invoice management is all I need.

--

[1] http://www.dolibarr.org/
I honestly dont think there's any other operating system in the universe that will have the same level of hardware makes support as Windows does, especially when it comes to desktop targeted hardware.

You have to be aware that neither Linux nor FreeBSD were developed with desktop usage as a primary goal, so the drivers support focuses more on hardware related to professional usage.

However, you can still use FreeBSD on the desktop/laptop if you pay some attention to what you're buying, and there is great FreeBSD distro called PC-BSD[1] dedicated to desktop users as well!

Answering your question in one word: comparable.

[1] http://www.pcbsd.org/
It would be rather silly to feel sorry for a country, but why not feel sorry for the people living there? After all Hitler was elected in 1933, which means that anybody who was below 30 when the peace was made couldn't be considered guilty, and Hitler only got 30ish percent anyway.

Unless you want to go the collective guilt or blood guilt route.
> I always find it funny how the only people who think that computers will overtake humans are the ones who don't deal with them at a basic level every day.

Funny, most people criticize anyone worried about AI risk as programmers with delusions of grandeur. (Damned if you do...)
That was certainly a huge inspiration for us to develop this. Too many times have I heard my less tech-savvy friends talk about getting into bitcoin/crypto but not actually committing. I think it's a combination of the technical hurdles as well as what seems to be the "large upfront cost" - a layperson may see that 1 BTC = $300 USD and lose interest immediately. It's almost an intimidation factor.

Of course, the technical aspect has been a barrier for many people a while. However, I think that because this has been such a visible issue for so long many companies are attacking it (which is fantastic). The other issue - the mental barrier of not wanting to commit - is where I think we bring a unique approach.
In that case, they repay the scholarship, not the salary.
It could have something to do with CPU throttling, though I'm sure there are other factors at play. Once the temperature crosses the threshold, performance will deteriorate significantly. My guess is the better performing games operating below threshold.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC8rCeDMqFw
Regarding nootropics, gwern has an excellent writeup on different ones, and how he tested them http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics. You might already have seen it, in case it might be helpful to others.
Ross's free Webinar on Tuesday, binary options trading. Free for all
http://tweetd.com

http://fa2png.io/
A hotel that I have used for years on business and personal travel started using a new ISP a few years ago. This ISP injected advertisements.

I know the manager of the hotel fairly well, and I told her that I thought this was a security problem and a generally rude thing to do. Within a few months they switched ISPs, so other people must have complained also.
And for this solution to work the down sampling must happen inside the program, not in the file system, therefore all network-braking noise would have been already discarded.

I see, maybe I just didn't get your point the first time.

Anyway, what I was trying to say is that if you do view the downsampling as part of the network/program, you could apply the optimization procedure mentioned in the paper to a network that blurs its input. I assume that this would then generate network-breaking patterns that are imperceptible to the human eye, in the same way as happens in the paper.
it's a testbed for a lot of experimental, some would even say unnecessary, technologies.

Nope, that's DragonFly BSD. FreeBSD is far more conservative in comparison, occasionally integrating some more daring idea. In contrast, NetBSD used to silently innovate all the time (and I think still do, what with rump kernels) and even OpenBSD, despite being rather vanilla on the outside, is internally innovative in the area of security.
Note: unsure if it suits everyone. The things will be teached by Ross:

- Market Correlation
- Will be given live signals
- Entry Confirmations

If those of you here who trading binary online, this can be interesting :)
How many tens? That's less than 3 months of pay for the jobs they hire into.
By multiple channels I mean not just channels over a single network. You can access all these key sources from different networks.
http://preev.com/

http://gifcountdown.com/

http://www.convertico.com/

http://pastebin.com/

http://www.bustaname.com/
http://ip-api.com/ ~400m requests/month
I was at Andrew Tanenbaum's goodbye Lecture where we once again were reminded of the stupid move by AT&T of suing BSD, which stalled the project for 3 years allowing Linux to flourish. Oh how different the landscape could have been.
That's a fascinating example of how capitalism exploits a broken traditional culture.
http://ownzee.com
What this app suppose to do ?
And from where you take the data ?
Your response has nothing to do with his post. He said he's looking for senior devs and keeps getting sent rookies. It doesn't matter what their background is, they clearly shouldn't be applying for something they can't do.
Cantonese native speaker here. Just want to state that the definitions for the expression 飛象過河 (An elephant flies across the river)

1. To break a rule
2. To reach across the table for food

are both a reference to a rule in Chinese chess stating that 象 (elephant) is a defensive piece and cannot cross the river, with the latter being more of a metaphor to describe someone who reaches across the table for food, which is considered a bad table manner.
Experimental ideas are almost always shot down by the developers
Here's the fallacy with these scenarios: It's not AI vs humans with sharpened sticks. It's not-quite-yet autonomous AI vs humans using the same technology the would-be AI is using. In this scenario I give humans the edge.
Used freebsd, netbsd and openbsd in the past. FreeBSD for desktop, netbsd for embedded and openbsd for firewall.

I'm happy to see more headlines on BSDs these days, and I can't stop thinking it has something to do with systemd.
It doesn't support 64bit and some newer features (yet!)
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Draft Policy on Open APIs for Government of India [pdf]
Bribe is a dirty word. I think consultancy contracts are the appropriate terms lately.
Statically Typed JavaScript via TypeScript, Flow and AtScript
I've never been diagnosed but I'm bored all of the time. I'm almost 30. I've been fairly successful in jobs where I'm learning new stuff all the time. Is it possible I'm ADD?

Edit: I got bored halfway through the article.
DFU modeiPhone jailbreak
http://mathb.in

Math pastebin with LaTeX/HTML/Markdown mashup.
I agree - the socialist solution we have in my country of having multiple private companies compete a relatevily free market (as opposed to one where local governments have passed laws to limit competition, like the US has) is much better.
Technicalities about "helping" start either war aside (I'll let someone else more knowledgable in this area argue that), yes I do feel sorry for them, it's just basic human empathy.
Now the law can be improved to regulate these well understood staffing companies.
Not to mention putting together a collection of stories like this would give Apple fans a fallacious reference for why everyone should "just get a mac". Sorry, if a Mac doesn't fit my needs, I'm going to use a normal personal computer, not a walled garden. Doesn't matter how many obstacles I need to get through if I need a real personal computer, not someone else's ecosystem.