skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein once gave a lecture outlining why square screens would be superior for cinema.

"Eisenstein playfully hyped the virtues of the "dynamic square," a screen that was exactly as high as it was wide. He did so in part because to him the square was modern, charged with productive machine force. This more purely cinematic screen was, according to Eisenstein, necessary for properly showcasing the energies, conflicts, and collisions germane to the moving image arts. It would also, at least in theory, be the most accommodating frame, capable of hosting images composed for planes that were either horizontal or vertical. Eisenstein proclaimed that previous industry standards (4:3), as well as contemporaneous calls for wider screens, were nostalgic, calling forth a dated viewing regime dictated by traditional art forms."

https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals...
I tried it myself before making the comment and it did not work, but perhaps that was because of HTTPS Everywhere.
Have not seen the museum. So long as they are crediting the engineers from the DARPA contests then the story is not revisionist. Everything since DARPA has been fairly incremental with contributions from a wide variety of people (including 510). There just isn't a Da Vinci code type conspiracy going on here.
The problem is we don't have data on the candidates we don't hire.
That's nice of them to provide a way for poor kids to look at porn.
There are lots of thing in that comment that indicate it is not a USA based employee at all. For instance, I don't know of any jurisdiction in the USA that has a vacation mandate.

So, that isn't to say that USA's work laws are good, only that European style work laws are not enough to prevent abuse.
Grab a DO instance for $5/month, install openvpn on it, set it to serve over tcp & port 443 if you have to and then shove your DNS and everything else through that. Yes it's sad this is necessary but it's easy to do, costs virtually nothing and lets you sidestep most ISP filtering policies with the added bonus of protecting your traffic from whatever random wifi network you happen to be using to access the internet that day. If that's too much like hard work, there are also hundreds of 'VPN as a service' providers out there that will do it all for you for less than $7/month.

Either way, it seems more and more quaint to me that anyone connecting via a mainstream ISP assumes they'll get an unadulterated feed to the internet. If you're an adult and want to decide for yourself how you'll use the internet, get a VPN in place and relegate your ISP to being a dumb bit pipe.
That guideline is just for choosing from a menu of options.
Mozilla does not renew the 5-year contract with Google, but Yahoo
Yes, that is the obvious parallel with Uber - I assumed that went without saying. I'm talking about how they work with their users and market themselves - there is a clear difference there between the two companies.

Most people aren't swearing off Uber because they are breaking into a regulated industry but because they're being dicks about it.
It costs nothing to make your DNS server point users to nosslsearch.google.com. I think you are letting your feelings toward Google cloud your perception of reality.
I was thinking of CloudSync.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Motors
I just finished watching it a few minutes ago.
Great documentary,
On 5 years of college – What I learned
The benefit is that this is built in to the browser, meaning more users will use it. If you want the extra protection of Ghostery, then by all means, go for it. This is easier for other users.
I agree that the negative's are a very difficult case, but in my experience is that most people don't cover the easier case of candidates they can evaluate. Further, evaluation techniques themselves are pretty error prone. But without collecting data and experimenting with it, how do we improve the problem?
A Google employee addresses this: https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/websearch/1l2KMUfgyo4.... Apparently visiting `nosslsearch.google.com` directly does not have the intended effect, but setting up the CNAME record does.
Crazy talk. In 1ms, I can perspective transform a moderately big image. NodeJS cant iterate through a list.

We really need a 60 fps equivalent for web stuff. You have 16ms, thats it.
I'm not going to rebut each mischaracterization, but I did work on Persona, so:

> the BrowserID/Persona thingy that happily continued the trend that makes your identity owned by a third party

Nah. You could happily choose any Identity Provider that implemented the protocol, including a self-hosted one.
Many "stealth" techniques actually make you more trackable on the web. The person wearing a mask is easy to track in a crowd.
At the moment, yes, no nosslsearch VIP will do this. However we're getting rid of it soon and replacing it with one that enables SafeSearch, but still over HTTPS: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/186669?hl=en

However, if you want an encrypted search option, https://encrypted.google.com/ is always encrypted and isn't affected by these methods.
> award of the credential actually signified a capability to do the job.

without a doubt.
I'll cut the young 'uns some slack here. You need to learn how to assemble curly brackets and semicolons and whatnot into a machine that actually does something before you can learn how to design machines. The art of design is the difficult and important part, but it's impossible to learn it before learning the basics of construction.
I think the problem is even worse on Startpage, which does use Google search, but Google is probably intentionally limiting the API to very old data.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In-Gear/2013/0919/5-things...

I was quite surprised by the parent comment because I had never heard of Musk being described as a founder. But then again I've lived in palo alto since before tesla was founded so the power struggle was minor gossip at the time (and was in the mercury news).

What has surprised me is that he is in fact listed as a founder on the wikipedia web site and in fact Tesla litigated over the matter.

Now the word "founder" is weird -- IME A round paperwork typically refers to any common shareholder at the time of venture investment as a "founder". And then there was that bizarre Facebook suit over who could refer to themselves as a company founder. Weird.
How Much Should I Spend to Acquire a Customer?
How Coursera is using data to improve teaching
C on UNIX? You were lucky! My dad had to toggle the bootloader into the front panel every morning before he could even run the assembler!
And that is not really true either. Many years ago I worked in the federal government and there were quite a few 10x developers and teams holding everything together despite the pretty poor environment and overall low quality.
They've "outgrown" the "don't be evil" mantra now, apparently... http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/03/larry-page...
The Wayback page doesn't reference "forcesafesearch.google.com" as the current one does, so perhaps "nosslsearch.google.com" is deprecated as a means of blocking adult content.
It's not even close to true in any real sense.

Queues create async operations which are often processed faster than sync operations because queues force an async design.

You should compare Little's Law to a hard drive with and without native command queueing.
Same here, Win 7 x64. Ctrl+Space opens up the list of all actions, so you can make your way from there.

A bit of an annoyance, but apparently being able to evaluate and update multiple files in a Clojure project works now, so I'm too happy to care.
The point is that Joe User won't be able, shouldn't have to do this.
Google the headline in a Chrome anonymous window. First link should be full text of the article.
>(multi-threading to name one)

This isn't a problem in 5.5+ if you know what you're doing. That the language has a lot of people with no idea what they're doing is a testament to the fact PHP is easy to use and most others aren't for a novice, not that the language sucks.

I'm not the biggest PHP fan but since 5.3 most of the criticisms are unwarranted.
Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning were the first to start Tesla.

http://www.wired.com/2009/06/eberhard/

https://gigaom.com/2009/06/11/tesla-founder-eberhard-files-l...
Everything coming out of LHC is required to be open. If PRL hadn't agreed to the policy, they'd have taken their results somewhere else. In aggregate, LHC had enough negotiating power to inspire change.

CERN additionally funds the open-access fees for papers to help them offset publishing costs over the life of the paper.

http://cds.cern.ch/record/1955574/files/CERN-OPEN-2014-049.p...
The key thing about Python is that it's really plain. It's a straightforward procedural language - values, functions, names, calls, and that's about it. It has a simple object system, and some simple functional features. The whitespace business is superficially kooky, and there is a scary amount of metaprogramming and other craziness available, but people tend not to use it.

As such, it's a really useful preparation for learning other languages.

If you have the basic concepts from Python, then when you learn Ruby, you just learn some syntax and the special things that make Ruby distinctive (metaprogramming, monkeypatching, ubiquitous gemmery, Rails). When you learn JavaScript, you just learn some syntax and the special things that make JavaScript distinctive (callbacks, artisanal object systems, the interplay of JS and the DOM). You never have to learn to do without some special thing you've learned to depend on, because Python has no special things.

Well, that and it's incredibly easy. And it has a really strong batteries-included standard library. And it has a really friendly, helpful community. But mostly the plainness.
Acgourley, good point. It's very useful when making small changes to an application in the field. The Dropbox integration makes it easy to write a sketch on your computer and then to modify it on-the-go with iOS. One example: If you have Bean sensors throughout a large space, it's easier to visit the installed sensors, interact with, and update them using the mobile device.
Visualize Prime Numbers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google#China has a short summary. You're correct that since 2010 they've refused to assist with government censorship; I had been thinking of what came before that. I think you have a good point that today, Google is the better actor in China.
An example of basic concurrency I have great difficulty doing correctly in Java:

n = 0;
avg = 0;

function twothings() {
thing1(function(ret) { ++n; avg += (ret - avg)/n; });
thing2(function(ret) { ++n; avg += (ret - avg)/n; });
}

I want to dispatch two I/O operations to run concurrently and have their completions modify some shared state in a serializable fashion, which can be read at any stage in the process and have a valid result. I shouldn't need to give up on nondeterministic simultaneous execution or faff about with locking mechanisms to get this.
Minimum clue level? How about the minimum level is "the level a lot of developers are making a professional living at". It's incredibly low. I've personally done things in a week that previous developers had spent several months on, and I had no particular domain knowledge. And I feel some other folks are far better than me. So the entire range could possibly be 100x.

I've had small coding issues where one dev takes a path that costs them an hour or so, and another is able to deliver the same functionality in minutes.

I've seen projects where some developers simply say " I've no idea on even how to start such a project ", and other developers sit and think, read, and end up delivering. That's far more than 10x.

Environment may be huge, but it's blatantly false to say there is not a massive, order of magnitude difference between individuals. Unless you define developer as meaning within a certain competency bracket. At which point it's only true on definition.
Encode an image as sound
Hm, reading the comments I get that it's always the same story: If you're not paying, you're the product.

BT is trying to make some cash selling data to third parties. Since google allows to specific network blocks (defined probably by IP address) to use non-SSL connections, BT installed public WiFi to offer internet access and gather data which could be sold to advertisers. Is it really a goldmine? I'm not sure, with Google and Facebok gathering much more personal data than BT ever will, I'm not sure if it's a Goldmine, depends on the quantity and accuracy I guess...
Very cool Steve, congratulations. I think this is the first 2 party escrow market to come out. Exciting stuff.
Despite losing Google as its cash cow, Mozilla isn't dead yet
It's been developed for spacecraft use by Russia, China and the US, that's it. It IS politically sensitive in Europe.
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What sense of moral authority does a journalist need when describing Twine and its influence on game development?
Plus, even in what you've quoted, is there anything you can cite as faulty/wrong? The media doesn't have to be a court of law, and I really don't see anything controversial in what was stated there.

Your anecdotes don't really have any relevance when speaking to documented issues within the video game industry (and the broader tech community).

Back to the main article, I don't know that there's really any way to address what's been happening with Twine without covering the controversial buzz around it. (Not to say that the tool itself is controversial, in fact, it's rather mild, but it's become a symbol of larger things) It's become a powerful tool for expression and community creation in ways which have allowed voices and perspectives which previously haven't had much attention in the medium to flourish. By its nature that brings complexity and controversy in, especially at a time when questions of medium-as-identity are stuck between ideals of calcification and expansion.

So to leave it out would be to do a disservice to the topic. But reporting on it blandly in a "Side A says X, side B says Y" manner also does a disservice to the topic, much as that manner of reporting has been criticized when applied to topics such as anthropogenic climate change and evolution. So in the end, I think this article went about the topic in a wise and sensitive manner, shining a bit of sunlight on the fascinating intersection of technology and humanity.
Are you gonna sit very close to the screen?

You probably will sit half a meter (1.64ft) from a 26.5" monitor, maybe more, right?

According to isthisretina.com the density of a 26.5" 1920x1920 becomes equivalent to retina (326ppi) at about 34 inches (86cm).
Do richer nations have an obligation to help improve poorer nations?

I think the answer is yes, but we've been pretty terrible at it so far.
i sync fastmail's calendar with the built-in android calendar app by using caldav.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.calda...
Korg have literally always been amazing about stuff like this. They were the first in the App Store on iOS, with an iPad app on day 1 for the iPad's release. Their MIDI implementations are always more consistent, more solid, and more reliable than competitors.

If you're surprised by this, you might know music manufacturers in general, but you don't know Korg. :-)
Do they really though? Have they consistently shown you can take the developers in a bad environment and put them in a good one and they will be as productive?

I don't think so. I think they have simply shown that certain environments are horrible for productivity.
Where Is the Mouse? (compute mouse location relative to HTML canvas)
BT blackmailed Google into doing this. The alternative is no Google on BT at all.
Honestly I dont see how this is a "choice". In fact this sounds exactly opposite of the choice. In this particular case Firefox has made the choice on our behalf that we are better off using Yahoo's crappy search results instead of market leader Google.

If you are making a browser which is focused on giving freedom to users you are supposed to :

1. Either let the users chose the search engine as an on-boarding step.
2. Offer industry best/leader as default.

In this particular case Firefox has made a suboptimal choice on our behalf in the name of "choice".

How exactly is this different from :

1. Comcast taking more money from Netflix to give them better bandwidth ?

Now my grandmother will end up seeing 0 organic search results above the fold and will have to learn to either change the search settings or simply use that icon with Red Green and Yellow around a blue dot (Chrome).
"A new version of ZOD has been released and is ready for you to kneel before it."

(For those confused, I was the lead on the level editor for Superman Returns: The Videogame. We named it ZOD, naturally.)
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> Companies like Volvo are far ahead already.

Volvo is actually far behind -- their cars are designed for Level 3 Autonomous Driving, while Google cars are Level 4. Also, Google has far more miles in real-world city driving than Volvo.

Right now Google is furthest ahead in this space, arguably by years.
You know you can turn of Web History if you don't like it.
I don't know of any actual projects to that end, but certainly people have thought about it. I know from personal conversations that Asa Dotzler in particular has given it some very detailed thought, though I don't know if or where he's written up any of those ideas...
Calling external code is a separate issue. This is about unsafe code within the language.
Exactly right. I slapped together a little crude Python script that converts the markdown to HTML and wraps it in some boilerplate HTML.

https://github.com/munificent/game-programming-patterns/blob...
"I have gamed from childhood through adulthood and never ONCE have I seen a woman be excluded from our groups or treated as inferior. In fact, when the Wii came out, most of the 'Party-style' group games had a lot of couples playing. When I've been to the Final Fantasy Music concerts, I would say it's at least 30-40% women. These are only my anecdotes and I don't work in the gaming industry." - Shinkei, somebody who's had good experiences gaming

"[In response to the question, 'Can I get my Street Fighter without sexual harrassment?'] You can't. You can't because they're one and the same thing. This is a community that's, you know, 15 or 20 years old, and the sexual harassment is part of a culture, and if you remove that from the fighting game community, it's not the fighting game community—it's StarCraft. There's nothing wrong with StarCraft if you enjoy it, and there's nothing wrong with anything about eSports, but why would you want just one flavor of ice cream, you know? There's eSports for people who like eSports, and there's fighting games for people who like spicy food and like to have fun. There's no reason to turn them into the same thing, you know?" - Aris Bakhtanians, FCG commentator and player, somebody who creates bad experiences gaming.

It's wonderful that you haven't seen it, and I'm very happy for you. But people in video gaming communities say pretty gross things about women, and it's been happening for a while. That particular quote is from 2012. Later in the conversation, somebody asked Aris if shouting "Rape that bitch" is an acceptable thing to do during a tournament. Take a moment to consider how you would answer that question.

Aris's answer was "Look, man. What is unacceptable about that? There's nothing unacceptable about that. These are people, we're in America, man, this isn't North Korea. We can say what we want. People get emotional."

But hey, that's great that your friends don't exclude women from your groups. It's too bad more people aren't like you, that's all.
Square is good. EIZO monitors are normally eye-wateringly expensive, at 5-10x the price of a budget panel as they are targeted at the medical industry.
Hi, just out of curiosity what pushed you away from Emacs? I was planning to learn how to use it but your comment made me think...
> Knowing the U.S. military, rather than addressing the root cause of the issue (namely: the totally senseless cult of sleep deprivation in the armed forces

I believe the root cause is that the military prepares for war, and in war you can't schedule breaks or nights of rest.
Velodyne already has their own self driving car. What google is working on is the hard bits like figuring out how to handle cyclists, shitty drivers, pedestrians, traffic lights. Those things are hard.

But someday I'd really like to see an open source version of a road capsule.

Mainly aimed taking existing cars and running them like trains on a track.

1) Stop when an obstacle is in front
2) Automatic follow the current lane, maintain a safe distance with car in-front and follow the speed limit.
3) Parse traffic lights and be able to make turns.
4) Wait for passenger to get in and out.

There's no reason why I can't take a short nap while I'm on a 100km straight road going cross country at night when there are almost no cars on the road.

I'm betting that someday in the future we're going to have lanes on road specifically for self driving buses/cars just like we have dedicated train lanes.
Effective and also scary. That same video feed could be archiving (for eternity) every single citizen's movement, action, or even words:

"Citizen #5135: In 2015, spit on sidewalks 28x this year, jaywalked 49x, etc..."
I gotta be honest: I'd like to see what would happen if they tried this.
Would BT be the UK's version of Comcast?
> you certainly don't want the user to be on the loosing[sic] side because you don't like systemd.

Debian has a long and glorious tradition of standing on principle to the user's (at least short-term) detriment. Look at the way they used to ship KDE programs (especially in the days before GPLed Qt), or the way they still package tomcat, or their approach to multimedia codecs.
DigitalOcean Revamps DNS
That adds sooo much context that I was missing. I was like Bit torrent is asking Google to do what?
But that means that you don't actually know if this extra signal of quality (or at least, notability) has any value at all. That tells me that you shouldn't be including it in your analysis of a candidate if you don't know what it actually represents.
I think the 'Companies like Volvo are far ahead' needs to be qualified. IMO, Google is ahead in the following areas

-map data
-PR & public visibility
-pushing legislation debate
How much do you pay for your search service?
OK, a square monitor. Maybe Apple will announce a round monitor, with a round GUI to go with it. Apple fans would be camping out in front of Apple retail outlets for the thing.
Case of "I'm going to pick the sentence I like the least out of its context and argue against that"?
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Uhh, does Yahoo's "new" search look like a clone of Google to anyone?
We were hearing concerns that the CA was worded in our favor and was one-way, in that people could contribute and we could take their work and commercialize it down the road without open sourcing it.
This is more difficult to accomplish than it seems. If I'm hungry, mediocre Italian food can provide me some value. Mediocre software provides no value.

Doing something just a little bit better is also not going to cut it. Peter Theil gave a good talk on this recently: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec05/

Just doing OK in SaaS is harder than it looks.
> PHP started out as a non-serious project, and today it's had some serious problems (multi-threading to name one).

What's the multi-threading problem? The engine is thread-safe.
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