skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm totally down with the goal of equality of opportunity - but as women in STEM at college in USA have been falling since the 70s do you think there has been a corresponding decline in opportunities for women to enter STEM courses? It seems that despite greater opportunities there is a decline and not because of it - I was really surprised by those figures in your NCWIT citations:

>"Similarly, in 2008 women held 57 percent of all professional occupations in the U.S. workforce but only 25 percent of all professional IT-related jobs — down from 36 percent in 1991." //
Since they aren't saying, it's doubtful they do better than current OLED panels, which framkly are pitifully dim.
What happens if you make an incorrect submission for the coding challenges?
It's more popular in certain geographic and industry pockets. I used to see long lines at the Pentagon and Crystal City for slug riders every afternoon/evening.
Usually what you do to solve that problem is chain a bunch of LEDs together in series and then those groups together in parallel. If your process technology is +- 5% then chaining 5 LEDs in a row will even out your average error to +-1% instead. Which makes a big difference. Of course, if they don't do that then you're right that there can be problems.
Forget Array.forEach
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Once again - if it worked, it would not be a scientific paper / freely available on github. The creators would be using it to make money, keeping mum all the while.
My liability portion is $250,000 each person / $500,000 each accident and State Farm only wants $30 a month for it.
Constant diffuse / ambient lighting without shadows. Kinda like a lightbox.

Would be nice for working on my computer. It's really tough to light the Inside of a PC case without creating shadows everywhere. The same thing goes for working on a car engine. these applied to the underside of a hood would be very nice.

Beyond actual lighting applications, this has really cool possibilities for cheap displays on pretty much anything. Or cool logos or safety clothing.

Could do some cool stuff with a coffee cup that could generate the electricity from the thermoelectric effect[1] to light up and display the temperature of the coffee. There are better ways to do this I suppose but this is just an example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect
http://www.amazon.com/Chesterfields-Letters-Oxford-Worlds-Cl...
I think creating a purpose-specific overlay network that gives you performance comparable to what we see today with centralized solutions while simultaneously preserving the guarantees from the blockchain is the hardest problem here by far. If you can create such an overlay network, you should be able to turn around and use it to create a much faster blockchain.
I find it very weird that his treatment is being viewed as unnecessary due to him producing something. Any other disease and this would be frowned upon.

His disease is a sad and miserable existence. Being schizophrenic is like have everyone against you; religion is his coping mechanism not to freak out against everything, but who knows how long it's going to last.

Anyone suggesting he could get be offered a job clearly never really knew someone with the condition. I think it could be possible if he worked remotely, though.

I hate so much schizophrenia... being denied reality has got to be one of the worst conditions a person can find herself in.
Looks like an interesting competitor to IPython/Jupyter notebooks. But they basically do the same thing - at first glance I can't really identify any significant differences. It would be nice if the website would clearly answer the question "Why choose Beaker over the more established alternatives"
There is a key difference between the worlds in question, though.

As Philip K. Dick said: “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”

Should the mentally ill not be offered ways to participate in reality, simply because we find fault with the world?
Well after the google whacking of GW Bush, turn about is fair play I suppose.
My guess: they don't have to dodge too hard, ISIS is really useful as a boogeyman to squeeze funds out of taxpayers. ISIS is the new Al Queda is the new Commies is the new Yellow Peril is the new Commies.
I smirked, but then stopped. What took my smile away was the thought that enough people are going to see this and not take it as tongue-in-cheek, but as further evidence of a liberal bias among Silicon Valley companies, so on and so forth.
How do those compare to a standard drop-ceiling Fluorescent fixture?
My discipline is conference-heavy; all the copyediting and layout generally falls to assorted grad students and other underlings at whichever institution hosts the particular conference that year.

The major publishers (who need to get involved to have the proceedings indexed and "counted") get everything ready to publish online (well, they do slap a cover on the thing and get an ISBN) after the review process and technical process is done, and still try charge for access to the articles.
Reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend from academia.

I'd been chatting about a mutual acquaintance who was behaving a bit oddly by normal standards, continually working very long and strange hours and focusing very hard on their startup. The conversation ended something like this:

"Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that $friend has hypomania or something like that."

"Oh, really? Have they been diagnosed?"

"Diagnosed? Hah! In startupland, we don't say 'diagnosed'--we say 'funded'."
Yeah, it seems possible, my experience with it is through seizures though. I've had a bunch of temporal lobe seizures (the general area which the article says this neuron superhub lies), and it seems like this superhub malfunctions and sends and receives signals to every part of my brain. My entire subconscious bubbles up at once with no filter. I can feel my heartbeat, I can feel my breathing, I can feel every nerve in my body but the feelings don't make sense, memories from years ago flood my brain, I have simultaneous multiple inner dialogues, I see everything in whatever environment I'm in but I'm confused, I have no idea what I'm doing. My brain then starts to shut down after a few seconds of this, or at least my memory does. The seizure either spreads into a grand mal or stops. It's really overwhelming. Anyway, it feels like these disparate parts of the brain are all working at once but the overarching controller malfunctions.
That is correct, but even with memory we should only be around .2mm^2 to .3mm^2, while having 4x the SRAM as the Cortex-A7.
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I don't feel like the "what would you do if you had a year/week/day left to live" is a very useful question. If I had a day left to live, I'd try LSD, heroin and probably pick a fight with someone I didn't like, not try to learn a new technology.
Third result for me: Emperor Norton there you have it. Where's the problem? :D (yes, I know, emperor and not king)
I think that's exactly what's happening. A bunch of conservative bloggers probably got together to promote the link really aggressively.
I live in Minnesota, and I was glad to see that they didn't list grape salad as our top recipe again.
He apparently knows a thing or two and gets stuff done. I'd hire him.
This argument sounds a lot like blackberry vs iPhone to me tbh. I frequently use tablets and yet setting brush size was never great, hot keys being the blackberry. I am very excited about this device, which feels like the right next step, the iPhone.
hey philers,

i use to follow the malaysian startup scene (i lived there for a number of years) and while both sides have valid points, it is my opinion that it is what you make it out to be. I.e. if you are positive about it, you'll see a good side of it and if not, you'll see all the bad things about it.

Generally speaking, in my experience, malaysia is a good platform if you like your startup to be based in Asia without being too expensive (Singapore) and a good sizable english speaking population.

Note: I did a quick google-fu and found a good write-up by this guy who is a founder of a blogging advertising platform and a microblogging app: http://www.timothytiah.com/2014/02/22/5-things-you-may-not-k...
Surely that won't happen with it listing breitbart.com as the source.
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Google's Knowledge Graph: brilliant but a bit gullible.
Lyft actually had its start as ZimRide, a carpool posting service that would live on top of Facebook http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/29/6000-words-about-a-pink-mus...
For those suggesting an LLC for liability protection purposes, just a quick note to be careful here. Depending on your state, a single-member LLC might not actually provide any legal protection. For those interested, do a quick search for "piercing the corporate veil".

tl;dr the courts may see through the LLC "veil", determine the "company" is really just you, and may stick you with any liabilities/debts.
I don't think it's a bug. It took some context from the Google search: "king" and a country, and published the most recent news article that some fuzzy string algorithm matched and put that sentence in the preview.

Seems like it's working fine to me. There is no King of the United States, but we wouldn't expect the algorithm to know that.
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Well, there are over 130 million commuters in the US alone making 2 trips per day, the vast majority driving. Quite possibly one of the largest segments in all of global commerce. But you think it's small?
I find it normal to have several streams of thought going on at the same time. Picking just one to give voice to is sometimes difficult. For example I have two or three independent answers to the same question based on different assumptions. Or only having two hands to move several things at the same time. So, if anything this is a problem not a benefit.

Also, split streams tend to be individually dumber.
I don't think it's intentional in any respect, rather I'd wager it's more of a bug in Knowledge Graph or the search algorithm or something similar.

Even if it was intentional, Breitbart is a right-wing news outlet and so their headline would be expected to be tongue-in-cheek anyway.
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This inspired a post here, http://tendermint.com/posts/sidechains-without-pegging/

> Sidechains is more than one-way or two-way pegging, and beyond Bitcoin Maximalism.
An unenlightened plan, for a category like this where it's not immediately obvious what can be done with your product.
I would be careful comparing the work of pseudo scientific "spiritualists" to that of neuroscience. Why do you think scientists don't embrace these ideas? Is it really because they're somehow spiritually devoid and foolish and intentionally ignoring whatever truth you think you're grasping? Or is it because what you're talking about is nebulous and inherently impossible to test, with no theoretical underpinning based on experimental observation?
Wait until they discover the USA's late, self-proclaimed Emperor Norton:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton
>If he won the lottery three times, he asks, would she believe?

I would... :)
I'll second the ASUS laptop recommendation. I bought one a few months ago, and it's easily the best constructed non-Apple laptop I've ever seen or used.
The market for casual rides seems to be heavily biased towards rides to/fro airport (I have nothing but personal observation to back this up though), so nothing wrong with going after meaty segments.
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Clearly he should make another JavaScript framework.

Say what you like about the utility of the system, but it's definitely interesting.
Howwl, an apocalyptic horror, interactive fiction game
It's always Linux, isn't it.

Everyone always says they're making a specialized, lightweight OS for whatever task and then the first thing they do is saddle it with a 20-year-old clone of a 40-year-old kernel.

I also disagree with the assertion that distributed desktop operating systems are a bad idea :)
Clayton Christensen should really disrupt his own innovation theories
Sincerely this project should be moved to GitHub and a milestone for modernisation should be created (eg: port it to 4.02, add a plugin system to ease integration with code analysis and build tools, etc).

Currently the only active developer (according to logs) is the original creator of the project, while the project has potential to be maintained by the community.

Add to it a native graphics support for OS X, a decent documentation and suddenly you have a dream IDE.
Facebook is a ‘safe haven for terrorists’
https://www.google.com/?q=king%20of%20uk
Mark Cuban made billions from an open internet. Now he wants to kill it
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Hey guys -- I wanted to show you my side project I've been working on for awhile now. It's angular.js with firebase. I'm also using a node.js server on heroku for Elastic Search. Filepicker.io and AWS S3/CDN for serving images, content -- and the entire thing is responsive and still a work in progress.

Basically, bookstores generate amazing content that goes to die on pages like these.

http://www.politics-prose.com/audio

I hope to be _the_ site that helps consolidate all that awesome content.
Nash was great in spite of his issues, not because of them; his work was a real, useful contribution to human knowledge, because (in contrast to this guy) he worked with the wider mathematical community, which then in turn later built on his work.

Being afraid of men in red ties is still a dumb thing to do, and won't make you a great mathematician. We romanticize the outsiders, but the great bulk of the mathematical edifice was constructed by relatively ordinary, well-adjusted people like Euler. If you want to be a great mathematician, it isn't Nash you should model yourself on.
Getting anything approximating Intel's work, assuming you are rolling all your own IP, is pretty ambitious (and probably a good deal more work than your Core design). Even at only 6 Gbit/s (faster than PCIe Gen2, btw). Just curious - have you ever taped out a chip on a modern process before?
Lyft seems to be oriented around passengers and vehicles being commodities. This is probably the best move for general taxi service, but work carpoolers may want to either form their own group among friends, or try a couple of groups and stick with one that works for them. Maybe there's value in focusing on helping pre-existing groups coordinate schedules, with finding new groups being more of an afterthought, rather than an implied expectation of a new, anonymous driver and passenger every day.
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That photo of the team is hilarious.As if the men wore masks to wind up the woman.
Seriously, if you live in San Francisco, you should be mad that it's not Emperor Norton's portrait up there :)

https://www.google.com/search?q=emperor+norton&gws_rd=ssl
I love the [Cunning Of Foxes t-shirt.](https://gear.mozilla.org/products/firefox-cunning-foxes-tshi...) It looks like a normal silly t-shirt, the geek is subtle.
So... that's a bug? When I type random things in my computer, it executes them perfectly. It's just that it doesn't work because I typed random stuff.

Computers are perfect. Not us, so it's our job to create bugs.
By tracking results not time. That might seem a bit terse and ambiguous. The reason for that is that trust is a huge aspect of employing remote workers. If you've lost that (or never had it) that is the real problem that needs to be solved.
Octopuses occasionally stroll around on two arms (2005)
...while I thought it would be covering Facebook's Flow project posted here a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8625222
I guess it depends on what kind of semantics you apply to "theory guy". In my mind it's not at all dismissive.

I mean it in it a foundation sense, rather than an applications sense. He has done great work with a whiteboard and pure thought, without the need for terabytes of data and thousands of machines.
The crux of my argument is relying on methodologies to write good software or to guide a design is pointless.

Instead of trusting everything you read, you should question it an consider it in practice before you actually follow it.
Curious about the Moto 360? So were we.
I don't really find people's apprehension of this subject strange.

Racist stereotypes have traditionally in large part been about difference in intelligence between "races", how some were more evolved than the animalistic others, etc. (i.e. dehumanization of "others")
Original title -> Google Bug? – The King of the United States of America (google.com)

Not a bug.

First, everyone searching for this is getting what they want, a haha moment.

Second, useful systems have errors.

They don't waste huge resources to fix small boundary issues.

This is why almost no one uses ada, and those who do possible would benefit from slacking off. And yes, I do include medical, military and space.
Try Sococo (shameless plug). Users report a higher feeling of connectedness when they can actually see their group talking, meeting, sharing docs.
DIOS means God in spanish, and in all caps it almost always means the Christian God. I hope some people aren't turn off by the name.
I don't think treatment is unnecessary at all - I assume if he was on medication he'd be gainfully employed writing code somewhere, and potentially producing even more interesting things.

Rather I was highlighting that individuals possessing a certain artistic talent, potentially correlated with propensity for mental illness, when untreated may produce incredible works of art as a side effect.

I'm not at all saying that him or society has a net benefit from that at all, but rather it's a second-order effect that is quite different from what we often observe (and stereotype) in terms of schizophrenia and mental illness.

Purely an observation vs a judgment.
It can be, but it being educational certainly doesn't make it fair use. If this was the case, no text book, teacher's curriculum book or documentary could be copyrighted. I doubt publishers who work in the education realm would be happy with this (and I'm not just talking about cartel level college text books here, but Kindergarten curriculum all the way on up).

This has been litigated in a number of "copy shop" cases (the most important involving UT and Elsiver if I'm not mistaken, but I can't look it up just now) and this is almost certainly not fair use.
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The researcher who wrote this article was also featured on Radio Lab recently:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/91503-the-unconscious-toscanin...
I am fully aware of CE and FCC. As a hardware engineer I've had to obtain those for a number of products myself.

Could you please point me to EMV for Germany? I've never heard of it before and am fairly certain CE covers Germany as well as all of Europe.

Do you mean TUV by any chance?
Q: Who is the king of the world?

A: Muhammad Ali

https://www.google.com/search?q=who%20is%20the%20king%20of%2...

I imagine answering nonsensical questions is hard.
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After trying to read this, I think I need to take things with a grain assault. It's a doggy dog world out there.
Just submitted a pull request for FoundationDB: https://github.com/ept/hermitage/pull/1
Mozilla’s Add-on Policy Is Hostile to Open Source
For some reason I find the test image that was used to be quite fascinating on its own. Were I given that image in isolation and told "write a program to generate this" I wouldn't have any idea where to start. After consulting the source code I now realize how it was created, and if anything that makes it even neater, that such a simple approach generates such an interesting-looking image.
Very cool. I suspect many of these port to R as well, and it would be interesting to compare the code and approach.
Not everyone knows that breitbart is a wingnut website.
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I am also not a lawyer, but unless O.P. is in DE, he/she will almost certainly have to register as a "foreign entity doing business" in his/her home state despite being registered in DE. In many states, this is about as expensive as simply registering the LLC there in the first place. Some states (such as NY) have somewhat byzantine requirements such as having to publish the application for your foreign (or even native) LLC in two local papers.

But otherwise, an LLC is the way to go; you might however want to elect to have the LLC taxed as an S-corp so you don't get taxed twice.
I don't really want my books "enhanced".

Standard epub handles full color illustrations just fine, by the way.
I don't get JSX, especially now that 0.12 requires you to use createFactory (a big improvement over the old API) to encapsulate all the static JSX parts. With JSX, you're losing all the things that make having a proper programming language useful.

Have you given react-hyperscript a chance?
https://github.com/mlmorg/react-hyperscript

Having first class functions for creating DOM makes it much easier to keep your DOM state creation dry. It's more tedious if you use it just like JSX, but if you recognize where you are repeating yourself over and over again, it's trivially easy to write functions that encapsulate all the repetitive structures in your HTML.

Furthermore, you don't completely break all the tools out there like eslint and whatnot. The h-script blends really nicely with solutions like RCSS and JSS.
I think it's fair, despite long-time predjudices - to think of the x86 architecture to be midway between RISC and CISC - most instructions (push/etc being the notable exception) make a single memory reference and no addressing mode does a memory indirect or has addressing side effects (auto incs/etc)- that means that instructions are retryable (don't ever need to be able to be restarted in the middle after a page fault) with a single dcache/TLB port
IANAL but I think git makes it pretty clear what is the original software and what are the modifications which seems
to be exactly what QPL requires: "distribute your
modifications, in a form that is separate from the Software, such as patches."
If they try complaining about liberal bias they will find out rather quickly, though.
> LeCunn, Hinton, Ng, Vapnik were all recruited on the basic fact that there is simply no way to do cutting edge research today without access to the data and computing resources of Google/Facebook/Yahoo/Baidu.

I don't see many details here, are you sure that's the case?

There are other reasons a giant of the field might decide to work at Facebook. They might give him more freedom than his previous employer. Perhaps friends of his already work at Facebook. The location and compensation may also play into it.

I don't want to be skeptical for no reason, but you're championing a popular narrative which I don't see direct support for in this instance.
> The truth is sometimes bitter.

And HN is often bitter. And cynical.
No, the UK isn't really very democratic in a literal sense, and nor is anywhere else. That isn't really the point, though, because as far as I know, no-one here is claiming that pure democracy is somehow the idealised form of government. The point was merely that the European Commission doesn't have much of a democratic mandate to impose these kinds of burdens on everyone.

In any case, we're drifting well off the original topic now and I'm not sure this discussion is going anywhere constructive, so I'm going to stop there.
FYI, That link doesn't work, but the one you posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8659653 does.
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