skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's probably a bit optimistic if he means that there's a huge, mass-media-proportioned market for it. But he's not wrong if he means a small publication (or more likely, an individual journalist) can make a successful go of it. Consider the "1000 true fans" business model. It is entirely possible to earn a respectable, six-figure income doing independent journalism for a small, but loyal base of subscribers.

It's extremely hard work. The payoff/effort ratio is probably lower than the ratio on the kind of corporate job that someone smart and hard-working enough to pull it off can take instead. (And this is probably why you don't see legions of smart, hard-working people trying to do it.) But it's doable, and some people are doing it. They're doing it on a small scale, to a loyal niche.

I have my doubts as to the scalability of the model, i.e., building it out to support a multi-million-dollar business. Plenty of well-connected and well-funded people have tried. Some of the best journalists in the business have tried. A few of these people have very publicly failed. But I am inclined to think that there's a decent sweet spot out there. It's not big, but it exists.

Stranger things have happened, though. This is a crude analogy, but consider the success of a show like The Walking Dead. Ten years ago, if I'd have told you that a show about zombies on basic cable was going to be one of the most watched shows on all of television, you'd have told me I was insane. And all available data at the time would have supported your position. The truth is, TWD could not have been a hit 10 years ago, much less on AMC. Various supporting technologies make its success possible: Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, VOD, and so forth. (Even DVR was in its early-adopter phase a decade ago.) Game-changers happen when the supporting infrastructure is in place to enable bright, risk-taking people to put the pieces together. For all I know, the conditions are in place to let someone find, address, and serve millions of people who are ready for "slow" journalism. It's an uphill battle, but I sincerely hope more people will strap on their climbing gear.
There are two issues I have with the redesign: the use of Palatino as the body typeface, and the dark green body text, which I think would've been better as a dark grey.

Other than that and a few spacing issues, it's good!
I don't think the force on the rotor would change direction fast enough to cause a vibration. It would be more like a constant push relative to the intended tilt, or a slowly spiraling wobble.

I'm not a mechanical engineer, though.
Give you a reason for what? You're all acting like this company owes you an explanation of what it does.
IMHO, when you are this stealthy you shouldn't get top spot on HN because a scifi author joined your team. It's like a Buzzfeed article.
Sure that makes sense for many (most?) websites.. but not for developer related sites.. Surely their primary audience is desktops?
#2 is demonstrably false. Corporations may donate equally to all parties since their donations are public record, but 'dark money' donors definitely do not.. https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/nonprof_summ.php...
Jury finds Apple not guilty of harming consumers in iTunes DRM case
Sure, I'm pretty sure Turner's original Total Functional Programming proposal https://uf-ias-2012.wikispaces.com/file/view/turner.pdf doesdn't use dependent types, but I'm not sure it has what you mean by "a good runtime [that] does coinduction well".
This is interesting, but these guys need to hire a designer!
>If the risk is that well defined, then the cost of escrow seems wasteful if you could just automate the upside/downside in the Blockchain

You don't pay for them to calculate the risk though you pay for them to resolve the issue when there is a dispute. So using bitcoin wouldn't actually lower that cost/allow you to automate away any of that.

>Automated contracts can only eliminate insurance middle-men

The middle-men in most contracts are there for assurance. Bitcoin doesn't provide that even with m-of-n.
I've had the Oric-1 OSDK (http://osdk.defence-force.org/), which offers the same universe, in my hack/inbox for a while now .. its an amazing thing to return to these old architectures and realize just how much we take things for granted today, and yet - in spite of the limitations - the things are still just as useful and interesting as they ever were. 'tis a delight to witness a 7-year old and a 5-year old pillaging through an ancient (30+ years) collection of floppies and tapes, and .. gradually over a few months .. accruing their list of favorites on the 'bookmark disk' from the collection, such that it is (* -). An 8-bit machine with 8 gigabytes of storage available is a truly profound and superlative new realm for exploration. I'm glad I'm doing it vicariously!

(* - http://www.oric.org/software/)
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For your stated goals: One, you can get advanced knowledge in the field while being in the industry. IMHO a Masters isn't needed, after 8years of programming. It's a different story for Mech/Elect etc. And two, you won't get any more recognition for your skills. Actually you might get a slight hit. Instead of being compared to 10 year experienced guys, you'll be compared to 8 year experienced guy.

Gates, Zuckerberg, Spiegel are college dropouts(ivy league of course!). Don't think the industry cares as much about degrees as you are assuming it to be.

However, you would find something else that you aren't looking for. You'll get back to univ life, breaking away from the monotony of regular work. That's fun. You'll have time to see things in new perspective, come up with new ideas. You might find some excellent peers with whom to team up for a potential startup. Also depends on the country/culture/school you're in.
For your stated goals:
1. You can get advanced knowledge in the field while being in the industry. IMHO a Masters isn't needed, after 8years of programming. It's a different story for Mech/Elect etc.
2. You won't get any more recognition for your skills. Actually you might get a slight hit. Instead of being compared to 10 year experienced guys, you'll be compared to 8 year experienced guy.

BillG, Zuckerberg, Snapchat founder are ivy league college dropouts. Don't think the industry cares as much about degrees as you are assuming it to be.

However, you would find something else that you aren't looking for. You'll get back to univ life, breaking away from the monotony of regular work. That's fun. You'll have time to see things in new perspective, come up with new ideas. You might find some excellent peers with whom to team up for a potential startup.
Of course, all this also depends highly on the country/culture/school you're in.
Conal Elliott is one of the earliest designers, implementers, and explorers of the space of Functional Reactive Programming. To Conal, FRP as a term is often poorly used as a term as it is precise and not so closely related to the broader general "reactive" programming.

Here Conal describes FRP as he sees it (or Denotational Continuous-Time Programming) both the motivations, the strong need for separation between denotation and implementation, and why continuous time is vital for efficient reactivity.
We just released this new Android app with a simple premise of delivering one curated parenting resource everyday to your phone. There are already a ton of sites/apps out there that have a lot of quality content about parenting. This is the beginning of our effort to streamline it.

Parents are already very busy, so we figured getting exposed to something small and digestible everyday can consistently help them become better at their job. A more elaborate read on why we created the app - http://blog.grandlegacy.us/post/105338611099/why-we-created-...

Any feedback is much appreciated. Thanks.
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Thanks for the reply!

Thankfully, it could hardly be simpler. As I am a busy web dev, it's the perfect first iOS gig I think. No backend, just a bunch of static views linked to a home view.
https://desksnear.me/
http://www.peerspace.com/

Loosecubes is another that recently shut down. Kodesk doesn't look like is is around anymore either.

Here's a Quora answer with a bunch of them: http://www.quora.com/What-are-all-of-the-sites-that-do-Airbn...

And Airbnb's 'Airbrb' April Fools: http://blog.airbnb.com/introducing-airbrb/
All I mean by that is that you probably want to be able to evaluate a partiality monad in the runtime if you want to write an interpreter or webserver perhaps.
There's more information here if anyone is interested:

http://io9.com/how-neal-stephenson-is-helping-to-make-snow-c...
that's the key - you need a differentiator. Not everyone has one at all; among job boards, it's quite common for them to be aggregators that just scrape other job boards. I don't find them to be useful.
Could you link to their developers wanted page? I tried magicleap.com/#/wizards-wanted and it just redirected me to home.
Not knowing about what would be required to model these full representations, is it just a typical "too much data, not enough data scientists" problem, or are there fundamental research questions to be answered here? For that matter, does the SEC even employ or contract/grant big-data researchers for these types of problems? It seems like it's exactly the type of problem that a government research grant should be intended to solve!
Numbers Aplenty: interesting natural numbers and their properties
The current most popular theory seems is that they are using the usual VR tricks, plus have the ability to track the eye so that the eye's accommodation (focus) matches the distance that the object is supposed to be from. From what I remember with my experiments with stereoscopy this should reduce VR sickness in about 10-20% of the population for which accommodation mismatching with stereopsis causes issues.

Note that this effect is why 99% of the content in feature-length 3d movies appears at an apparent distance of more than 10 feet from you; the amount that accommodation falls off rapidly with distance, so it's a much less strong effect at that distance.
In response to the trivia question: I'm assuming that it's impossible to find some N wit fewer than 10 digits. In all of my attempts I've received results relating to phone number reverse-lookup sites.

There also seems to be this website which exists just to generate a page full of numbers with any given prefix (defined in the URL):

http://www.qzonecom.com/mobile/maanshan_511556.html

Why?!
One of the things that's interesting to me about that quote is the phrase "optical table."

I think that there's a presumption (that I've shared) that Magic Leap is trying to make AR goggles or glasses. But, as has been extensively commented upon in the past, that's just crazy. We're just barely at the point of doing semi-decent VR (Oculus Rift) and just barely at the point of doing semi-decent wearable heads-up displays (Google Glass). The idea that Magic Leap could in any foreseeable timeframe create a device that has all the virtues of the Rift + Glass + A huge dose of additional technology on top of both is just laughable.

But if they're trying for something much heavier-weight, like the ability to create convincing illusions not in the form-factor of "some goggles," but rather, "a specially prepared room and table," then that's maybe a little more realistic -- and of course less obviously revolutionary.
Helium is made up of electrons, which is also incredibly abundant on earth. Either way, sarcasm aside, I guess you didn't really understand what I was trying to say if you're taking my diamond comparison as perfectly analogous, and then shooting down the idea because it doesn't extrapolate the same way you expect it to.

Up until some point, it was also difficult to manufacture synthetic diamonds at large scale. When the price of the thing desired is right / high enough, technology will be found and whatever costs necessary will become feasible.
Fantasy football?
I didn't mean to suggest they were literally disowning him — that's why i said "functionally" and "temporarily".
Having worked in e-discovery for many years, "exponential improvements" is a huge overstatement. What they have is in pretty much any e-discovery product on the market.

And they are missing a huge piece--predictive coding and advanced analytics (email threading and near-dup are EXTREMELY common). If you are in NLP, ML and/or IR, the legal industry is probably one of the most exciting places to be. Huge datasets, available annotators and tons of money. It's a red-hot lab of state of the art techniques being tried in the real world instead of on the Reuters, 20-newsgroups, Enron, and other "canned" datasets.
Support BSD OS?
It's not clear from the graphic or the article, but the list of top "sites" is actually the top networks - showing all of the network's sites' traffic is aggregated together. So "Fox" represents traffic from IGN.com and Myspace.com as well.
My favorite part may be watching Burtt operate the 35+ year old mixing console.
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I think that Android uses the Google Search API, not the actual website, but I could be mistaken.
Overall I like it, but it could really do with a max-width set for the content. I use my browser full screen on a 24" monitor and some of the line lengths are far in excess of readable.
They claim to have 406M unique visitors monthly.
If that is the case, it isn't shocking to see them at #7, only surprising that a lot of people working and living with tech since forever never heard of them
Is this a civil or criminal case?

In my understanding, the losers in civil cases can appeal.

By contrast, the constitutional right not to be subjected to double jeopardy forbids the prosecution from appealing not guilty verdicts in criminal cases.
Yeah. That's why I think a site bringing unique value that happens to have jobs listed might have a fighting chance, whereas a site intended to be a job board that tries to make itself uniquely valuable will struggle.

I'm aiming for the former.
It looks nice! I do agree with others who are saying that a page with docs shouldn't have this much white space as it makes it harder to read.
Michael Mosley did an interesting episode for the BBC on the benefits of fasting and periodic dietary restriction: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01lxyzc/horizon-201220...
Will he bring as much success to this company and he did with Clang? http://www.geek.com/games/neal-stephensons-526000-kickstarte...
Absolutely, the previous design tenure of 10 years is quite a feat. There are very few websites that can last this long without feeling old-fashioned.
There is literally and purposefully nothing to see here. Move along.
Only if they want me to care.
Still really surprising for me. I would've thought Google search alone would easily outperform all of Yahoo. And then Google also has YouTube, GMail, Maps etc.
Posts without URLs are penalized, so you'd be better off reposting this as a story with the link, and adding your text as a comment in the new thread.
Ionic Framework Beta 14: The Final Beta
In the first place it's pretty hard to ignore the moral argument. If moral arguments are out, and we accept the thesis that population is bad, then it's hard to see why purposefully letting people suffer and die from TB is any better than using nuclear bombs to reduce the global population.

But anyways, if we want to get around to a sustainable post-scarcity futuristic utopia, we need a global population of economically developed and educated people with replacement-level fertility. And when childhood mortality goes down, parents have an incentive to concentrate their investments (both economic and educational) into fewer children. Those children will be more successful, have better access and education about contraception, and won't need to have plenty of children to provide manual labor on their farm.

Anyways, that's how it's supposed to work, and has worked many times in recent history. I put less stock than others in the extrapolated results from the recent UN Africa study.
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yes...at a lower level i believe its called "confirmation bias" and we are all guilty of it, no matter how hard we try.
It could also be far more revolutionary. They make it sound like they invented a small-scale holodeck. If that is the case, no matter how it works, or how limited it is, the potential is huge. Realistic holograms would be a major step forwards in connecting computers to humans.
It seems you've overlooked "Penthouse" near the bottom of the list in 1996.
Passion of the craft is in full effect here. Having an ear to catch mundane sounds like the water pipes helped create a subtle but recognizable sound.
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I wasn't familiar with https://opencorporates.com/ - It looks like a great resource.
I have some bad news for you.

My own site is your direct competitor:

http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/

I don't intend to make money from my job board, rather I hope to find a job myself, in part because the job board will help my SEO if it gets organic links, and in part because some of those who get jobs through my site, might one day hire me, or retain me as a consultant.

As for your own job board, it would be helpful were you to post technical articles for the CS students. Not so many people visit job boards unless they're actually looking for a job, but lots of people like to read articles. Once they're at your site, then they'll notice your job board at the same site.
They recently raised $542 million. http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/21/magic-leap-tech/
So if your plans vary based on usage patterns and that carries additional charges, then yes, you'll have to run some sort of scheduled job to check for users getting close to plan thresholds. IMO you don't want to auto upgrade people, but rather warn them at say 80%, then 90% and give them the option to upgrade or be frozen at their current use level. This prevents chargebacks and complaints for auto upgrades they didn't want to have happen. Seems you already are on that path.

But on the other hand (thinking storage space), if your model is such that they pay $9.99/month with up to 5gb and for every gb over 5 they pay $0.99 say. Then you can auto charge the incremental fees and just make sure you are sending the clients an email and keeping them in the loop. I have not done this with Stripe myself so I am not sure the best way to set it up, but my initial guess would say you leave their base plan alone (unless they upgrade/downgrade it) and just add a surcharge to their account at Stripe if they go over their allotted storage space. One way I can think of off the top of my head is to change their account balance to be -$.99, or whatever their overage is, so that Stripe can bill that plus their next monthly service. But I am sure there is likely a more elegant solution.

Someone else mentioned Chargebee, which is a great service, but we chose not to go the route of like a Chargebee because paying additional fees on top of Stripe just didn't fit our model initially, and we feel our chargeback risk is very low. But if you have a higher risk business with a greater potential for chargebacks and disputes then it is best to insulate your self as best you can, and Chargebee helps you do that. In our case, we actually can process charges through Stripe or Balanced payments (although 100% is going through Stripe right now), which is why we did the vendor based model as I described above, that was our insurance in case we every had problems with one provider.
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Is there a particular algorithms course you'd recommend in there? I did some intensive reading recently on algorithms, but a well structured course will definitely help. Most of the material I came across so far aren't very close to practical life
It's too bad the economic incentives make this company take a stealth route. The problem is so large, and potentially so game-changing (both literally and figuratively) that I fail to see how one company could possibly capture all the value created, and it makes me sad that it would even try.
I've never heard of this actually, I would have thought black on white was the best way to read text.

What would be a better choice? Would black on off-white be better?
Is China's economy really the largest in the world?
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If there was such a thing as "undeserved profits", then we'd all be getting in line to grab some...
We need this in Toronto
My parents have mentioned the story of how, at an EAA convention, they asked a couple guys with mics and field recorders what they were doing, and they said they were recording audio for a movie called Star Wars. I'm betting that's the biplane.

(I will now imagine that I can faintly hear the ambient sounds of breathless, curious hippies in the background of that millennium falcon shot)
I also get the "too much green" feeling, which is odd because the old website had far more green.
I think you should read this as "what they are doing in the lab."

An "optical table" is to optical technologies as a solderless breadboard is to electronics.

Basically, it's a big, stable platform with lots of threaded holes of a standard size and pitch for attaching lasers, mirrors, etc. Most have some kind of pneumatic isolation or damping to keep vibrations from being transmitted from the floor. Things like interference phenomena are sensitive to displacements of a few nanometers, so you really don't want things like passing trucks to ruin your experiments!

Examples here: http://www.newport.com/Optical-Table-Selection-Guide/140219/...
"And I’m pretty sure it’s something wrog with their testing environment, because this call shouldn’t crash and it’s not with properly configured system"

I don't do iOS, but I hate programmers like this.
This is from September 2013.
They're selling something. If they want people to hand over cash, it might be practical to tell us what it is.
Linux 'grinch' vulnerability
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In the US, illegal actions by policemen (alleged or not) result in suppression of that evidence less than 10 percent of the time (in actual courts). Judges just don't like to suppress evidence, even in the face of what you and I would consider overwhelming reasons.

Police in the US get an extreme amount of benefit-of-the-doubt from the public and especially prosecutors' offices (police keep them in business and both sides value their working relationships), as we've seen in recent newsworthy court cases- this alternate approach you've suggested does not appear to be an improvement except in theory.
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The green movement will not embrace nuclear for two reasons: One is that nuclear produces highly toxic waste with a very long half life. And two, we have already seen that we are not good at making our sites safe and resilient to disaster, nor containing waste post disasters.

It is really to bad because without these facts nuclear would have solved our energy problems long ago.