skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the props and state are defined by interfaces so if you try to pass in a prop object which does not meet definition of the interface, typescript will complain. I think typescript is not so bad of an option until native ES6 support becomes more mainstream.
Interesting, why not try to build this based on Shelly? (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/shelly)
I agree. The emerging field of data science can help us to make more sense of the patterns and lack thereof that can become apparent after high fidelity capture of our brainwaves.

On that note, I would have to say I was a bit disappointed by the Neurosky Mindwave Mobile unit I received - despite being able to bypass their simplified attention/meditation/blinking reduction of the raw input signals and capture the {delta, theta, ..., gamma} filtered bands for further processing, many people (myself included) complained about the apparently low quality of the data, specifically showing large amounts of delta band activity and little else. I resigned that the low-cost interface was simplified to the point where it was a novelty and little else.

Now I am narrowing it down to OpenBCI vs. Muse vs Emotiv. Picking the right one for the handful of projects I want to use an EEG for is proving to be difficult. I'm simultaneously attracted to the ability to take matters more into my own hands with OpenBCI, and the ability to just get started right away with a product like Muse or EPOC.

I'm curious if you were planning to use the Rift for photic entrainment. I haven't seen anyone else intending to get into photic stimulation with the Rift besides a project or two that never seemed to take off like Ocunaut, so if you do plan to, it would be great to collaborate somehow.

Some research has indicated that photic entrainment might be even more effective than the various kinds of aural entrainment (binaural, monaural, isochronic).

http://www.mindalive.com/articleone.htm
(1/3rd of the way down, Frederick, Lubar, Rasey, Brim, & Blackburn, 1999)

My impressions from that study are that eyes-closed photic-only worked best for two reasons:

1. Closing the eyelids blocks out extraneous light which reduces interference.
2. No one knew how to properly combine the entrainment modalities yet.

However I believe that if a proper theoretical model is applied, AVE techniques might then become more effective, perhaps even more so if tactile audio were involved as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio-visual_entrainment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactile_sound

To me, a unit like the DK1 is not really usable for anything besides this sort of thing. After all, panning anywhere nearly as quickly as would be needed in a game on a DK1 would get most nauseated fairly quickly. (The DK2 is much better in this regard, and Crystal Cove hopefully even more so)

But the one saving grace for the DK1 was things done very slowly and deliberately, like a relaxed exploration of the Tuscany demo or something like this: http://guidedmeditationvr.com/
It's possible via homomorphic encryption, i.e. a way to manipulate cyphertext to make some mathematical operations like sums/products or logical comparisons without revealing the actual secrets. For example, it's possible to compare two encryptions of two numbers and get an encryption of their sum or to know which one is larger without knowing either.

However one drawback of such a voting system would be an inability to get actual vote tallies, only an ordering of the candidates.

There is an older google talk about this delving into more detail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDnShu5V99s
I think you might be misinterpreting it. Yes, there was conquest and genocide, but mere conquest and genocide weren't the reason the US became a superpower.

> On paper, the Nazi empire of 1942 represented a substantial economic bloc. But pillage and slavery are not workable bases for an industrial economy. Under German rule, the output of conquered Europe collapsed.
Right. Individual DRAM cells are much slower than the SRAM cells used in the rest of a chip's cache system but they're also much denser which is why they're used for main memory. But IBM found that for large last level caches the shorter wires enabled by size savings of eDRAM were enough to offset the slower cells leading to a faster cache overall.
Oh forgive me priest of the Apple church, cause i've committed a sin..
How many ipads i have to buy to be forgiven?

creepy..
None of the rMBPs, nor the minis have upgradeable ram. If I had to put money on it I'd bet a dollar the next-gen iMacs will be in the same boat. Just too hard to pass up that 400% markup.
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A Jenga shotgun to be used with those oversized sets would be far more impressive. lol
Celebrating all the other startup nerds working on their dreams this holiday season :)
I've also had no trouble with this, lately, though I have no idea how well that generalizes to others' experiences.
Decades of trying to keep up with the US militarily at the expense of everything else.
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Well, it's probable that, Hitler being Hitler, his plan wouldn't have worked in reality. So long as Britain controlled the sea, a "super-Germany" would have been at a serious disadvantage relative to the historical US, which did a lot of trade by sea.

As for why the USSR didn't turn into the US, it's probably related to poor economic organization, too much resources put into the military, too little international trade, and a dependency on primary resources like oil, with all those factors and others interacting in fun ways.
http://www.amazon.com/8088-Project-Book-Robert-Grossblatt/dp...
This is awesome dude. I actually found it via your hearthstone-data repo yesterday since I'm working on a related application (obj-c app to screen-capture arena and tell me which card I should draft), I'm excited to play around with this.
I'll just leave this here: http://www.usdebtclock.org/
https://github.com/libuv/libuv

Maybe not my all-time favorite but a recent one that I liked!
So for me.. "Engineer" is actually different. Honestly I think they are all different however I'm especially fond of engineer and care to differentiate it.

In my opinion an Engineer is a problem solver, at scale. Similar to a Contractor vs Civil Engineer. Sure a contractor can build you a good bridge for your backyard but you don't get them to design you the Golden Gate.

Similarly you don't build DynamoDB or BigTable with programmers, in my opinion you need Engineers.

Outside of analogy, the biggest difference I can think of is probably the ease at which youre able to be taught new things and the breath of knowledge that they already have. An engineer, at least in my experience/opinion has more breath of knowledge and a far easier time teaching themselves new things than a programmer. However, some programmers actually have more knowledge about a specific topic. For example I couldn't currently profile a running JVM (I'm sure I could learn) but to someone taught to program in Java and specifically took classes on Java, it is second nature. Again similar to how a civil engineer couldn't build you a closet. Or mechanical engineer couldn't fix your Honda Civic.

Anyways, I'm just being a bit defensive since I had to go through 1 year of general engineering (physics/chemistry/project management) 1 year of electrical engineering and 2 years of computer engineering.

For the record, I don't think you need to have gone to university to be an engineer. That was just my motivation for segregating its definition as much as I could.
The linux distro is probably unpatched to every linux vulnerability discovered in the last 10 years-easy to get a shell and start an attack.

You assume NK people think like Americans. Every scientist is working out of fear and therefore is doing the minimal amount possible to not be scolded. I lived in a communist country and the same way the economy was in the hole, so was scientific advancement. A good analogy is Cuba- they have one of the most rigorous schools for becoming a doctor, but they wouldn't know how to operate an MRI since none exist in the country. An NK citizen may have taken security class at an university, but may not have the talent, like a logical anarchist, required to become a great hacker. The number of skilled, motivated hackers outside NK is greater than those inside. Look at the video-how do you find the 10x programmer in that computer lab?

NK's way of keeping 24M people from protesting is by controlling INFORMATION. To have a hacker untraceable and talented enough to enter SONY, they must be read on the latest trends. This same hacker, if informed, would be smart enough to google his way out of the horrible living conditions in NK. The nuke scientists copied 1950's tech.

To me this sounds like the WMD's of the early 2000's. If NK doesn't have any credibility they will be easily blamed for political leverage with no evidence.

I welcome the FBI to open source the malware, traffic and trace logs for community analysis.

Come back and read this comment when hackers acquire this data themselves and provide technical proof of NK NOT being at fault.
To make a point. Let's be honest, the money probably wouldn't be life changing, but establishing a precedent in matters like these actually could be.
Oops, I didn't mean to link to that downvoted answer...
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I thought that before writing dplyr, but now I see that there a big differences. Relational databases are designed to work with large datasets on disk, and to accept changes very rapidly. The demands for in memory data analytics are quite differnt. Columnar data stores are a better fit, but it's pretty easy to bang out efficient code for in memory data; it's much harder to work with out of memory data.
Yahoo! is the default for U.S.A. Yandex for Russia, Baidu for China. All the others default to Google. And yes, you can always change the default search engine to your preferred one in the preferences.
Could you document the rules of the game somewhere?

Blizzard doesn't make it clear. I was going to embark on a simulator just like this, except I had a hard time figuring out the weird interactions and edge cases.

For instance, I just played a game last night where there was an enemy mad scientist on the board. I play a madder bomber and it kills it, playing a secret for the mage, which turned out to be mirror entity, proccing that secret, and the board was left with me and him having a madder bomber.

I wanted to make AI for hearthstone to test and simulate things, but these weird interactions was preventing me from making a simulator like this.
Well, it depends on whether you're looking at what Hitler & co. wanted versus what actually happened. In the alternate reality the Nazi leadership lived in, they could have made peace with Britain and restored the sea trade vital to Germany's economy. Of course, that was a complete fantasy, as was the idea that they could conquer the USSR and hold it.

The US didn't become a superpower only because of its natural resources and immense territory, yes, but I think it may have played a part.
I find the legal culpability of this fascinating.

Right now it is an extremely concrete example, and really easy to say that the originator of the bot is at blame and should be prosecuted for buying illegal items.

But, how advanced does a bot have to be before it itself is at blame? What if they'd programmed it to reach out and purchase from any vendor it could find? What if it wasn't programmed to do anything but made random acts, took feedback and then learned from it?
At the margin, I think we both mainly want to help poor people, right? I'm just pointing out that using measures like the Gini coefficient can inadvertently reward bad behavior. Of course neither side directly wants to destroy resources, but if we're comparing national Gini numbers & policies, there's no good way to distinguish between good vs bad ways to lower it. i.e. China's Gini has been going up, but they also are pulling tons of people out of poverty - is it bad or not? I'm not in favor of inequality, but just pointing out that historically the things that have moved people out of poverty have been market based innovation (the world since 1800), not direct assaults on inequality (USSR, Chinese revolutions, cuba etc.)
Distance calculations account for this and geodesic buffer support is on the way. This is close to top of my priority list right now.
My point is, Apple is not successful because they have the best technology, they are successful because they have the best marketing (and cult followers)
And what would those things be?
so one thing is that battlecries trigger before the "summon" effect, and it's a stack, so you do one effect, resolve those consequences, and then go to the next effect. In the case of multiple effects being added due to one effect, it goes by seniority (cards that have been on the board longer trigger first).

There's a decent amount of noted rules on it, but you get some strange things like Kel'Thuzad ( which was completely borked on release, not sure about it now). I think the general rule is "the code is the spec"
Interesting thought with your contractor vs. engineer comparison.

Could all three not be judged on the same scale as building developers?

programmer === contractor
developer === forman (or better term for somebody with view of the larger context of the current task)
engineer === engineer
Google has learned nothing from its dealings with the MPAA (hint: "they" always want more). And now they've just shown law enforcement that it can do this sort of thing. Someone's probably already lobbying for a law in Congress to force Google to do this sort of pre-crime thing on a much wider scale and continuously.

In fact, I'm willing to bet this is exactly the kind of thing that was required of them (and other tech companies) in the CISPA law (and the new CISPA-like law [1] Obama is calling for after the Sony hack - which seems focused on hacking information, but I'm sure it will be written to be a lot more broader than that).

[1] - http://www.activistpost.com/2014/12/obama-urges-congress-to-...
I once worked in a very, very low-on-the-totem-pole position for a company ranked highly on the Fortune "Best Companies to Work For". The reason their employees said such nice things about them is that they went to great lengths to only hire people who would "drink the Kool-Aid", so to speak. If you only hire people who can be convinced that you are wonderful, your employees will surely say that you are wonderful.

That being said, it was not a completely terrible place to work. There are much worse. It would have been hard to convince even "suckers" that it was a good place to work if it had, in fact, been a truly awful place to work. But it definitely wasn't great. The pay was mediocre, and the expectations were through the roof. And if you didn't act sufficiently grateful, if you didn't appear thrilled to be there at all times, then it actually became a pretty hostile place to spend time.
This is timely in light of the "Dear Future Homejoy Engineer" job posting[1] that is currently on the front page. It starts off with "so it's xmas eve and i'm in the office with several other folks who didn’t have plans for xmas either. everyone is cranking away. we’ve decided to watch the interview later and then get dinner and drinks together" and gets more depressing from there.

This article speaks about "four core needs" of employees ("physical, emotional, mental and spiritual") but the author doesn't seem willing to consider the possibility that employers aren't capable of meeting these deep personal needs in the first place.

Personally, I think the imbalance, chaos and unsustainable pace you see in even the supposedly "best" workplaces is more often than not just a reflection of the fact that large numbers of individuals don't set boundaries, prioritize or make a dedicated effort to invest in their own health and well-being. These people are not going to go to the Googleplex or a hot startup's swagged-out SOMA digs and suddenly find enlightenment. Unhappy, unbalanced people are going to be unhappy and unbalanced wherever they go and in many cases, they'll seek out environments that are unhappy and unbalanced.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8794956
If you judge countries externally by their Gini coefficient, countries which blow up the richest people's resources (or just stifle innovation (The USSR, 60s China)) will have a "better" number. So it's a really bad number to use, since there are evil ways to maximize it.

I'm suggesting we should use numbers like the absolute # of people in poverty, or national health, or access to education - those numbers aren't gameable and allow better solutions to rise to the top naturally (and we don't care how they go up, as long as they go up)
There is a version of iPython that works with Julia too
If you haven't seen Mattias' website before, you should take some time to look at all of the other cool stuff he's built:

http://woodgears.ca/tools.html

This guy is awesome.
So, for those of is trying to start companies, how do you create an effective work-place environment?

It's obvious from articles like this that you can't just dump a bunch of cash on slides and ping-pong tables, but it also isn't fesable (for most companies) to have 4-hour workdays. How can you balance the need for breaks with budget concerns?

I'd really appreciate somebody with experience in the area weighing in.
It's kind of interesting how the dynamics of the game completely change with the pistol. Since you can get rid of entire rows now, you have rows of same orientation stacked upon each other all of a sudden.
What precisely is the proper level of inequality? i.e. what is the Gini coefficient of an equal society? I've never seen it calculated. (It's not 1.0 since there are age effects, plus it's expected that immigrants will be poorer than well-established people, etc.)
Honestly, I have no idea how the situation is in the US, but here in Germany 112 operators automatically get precise location info for landline phones and best-available-quality pinpointing for cellphones.
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I know. It's such a trial being rich. I wish it was somehow possible for someone wealthy to find their way into poverty, so they could enjoy the social prestige and admiration that is the birthright of the poor.

Thank God there are noble folk - like your good self - who will stand up for the interests of those who need it least!
Ex-Googler here, now working on my own startup. I had weeks at Google with 14 hour days and time in on the weekends. I also had weeks where I worked 4-6 hours/day and put away the phone & laptop on the weekend, or even ducked out at 2:30 on a Friday afternoon so I could celebrate my anniversary with my girlfriend.

I appreciate the sentiment of the article, but there's a lot of complexity to the issue that it ignores. For one, most of the time that I was working crazy hours was because I a.) wanted and b.) needed to. I believed in the project's mission, the work was fun & challenging, and there was a lot to do that just wouldn't get done if I didn't put in the hours.

Similarly, when I worked very light hours, it was because there wasn't much work that I had to do. I was blocked on other teams, or in-between projects and my manager didn't have a good idea where I'd be productive at the moment, or "held in reserve" so that if we needed to react quickly to market opportunities I'd be well-rested and not occupied by other projects.

Working hard is not always a bad thing, or onerous, or exhausting. Sometimes employees work hard because they believe in what they're doing and want to do a good job; that's part of what makes a company a good place to work, after all. And sometimes it is, and creates a very unhealthy competition where everybody tries to outdo each other. I think that one of the things that Google in general and Larry Page in particular realizes is that people will have different desires for work/life balance at different stages in their life, and that within a large company, there should be places that can accommodate everyone from the achievement-oriented new Ph.D grad to the family with a young kid.
The VPN could connect to a Qubes-isolated VM.
> Getting a ton of money from an outside source dumped into a region will pretty much always improve things for people there. That hardly seems worth analyzing.

Does it not? Your statement is completely wrong so it may well be worth analysing. Google "Dutch Disease" for an example. Check out the "McCrone Report" for ways to avoid this happening.
Readability[1] helps a lot in these cases.

[1] https://readability.com/
As a counter argument, Apple fans are always telling me "just go to the genius bar, they'll sort it out". As if that isn't a hassle. I've never had the need to take any of my windows machines in to be serviced.
This course appears to ignore a large portion of the field, such as the intracortical recordings used by Braingate [1] and all of the neural prosthetics work using implanted electrodes. The methods are quite different since EEG is incredibly noisy and low bandwidth in comparison to more invasive sensors.

[1] http://braingate2.org/
One thing i know from my own Digital Piano is how important the force and speed of the key strokes is.

Something that the article did not mention accounting for.
I doubt there's any serious risk of criminal liability here. The key for most crimes is showing (human) intent (by the coders, the operators, or someone). The intent to purchase random items for art via some automated process isn't the same as the intent to purchase drugs for personal use.

That said, if you decide to keep any drugs you get from the not rather than immediately disposing of them, you've demonstrated the requisite intent to be guilty of possession, so there's that.
I don't seem able to reply to your last comment. Sorry I haven't done very well with your comments; it's not been through deliberate ignorance, just lack of time. I hadn't been previously aware of UBI in Native American tribes and had thought you were referring to social problems and welfare.

I will have a read over the link you provided when I have more time. Thanks for letting me know about it.
One immediate idea that comes to mind is the ability to create and share quick puzzle games for other HS players. You could define parameters like "clear the board", "find lethal", "minion x must survive", etc... Some players have already been trying to make them by hobbling together screenshots, but they're not as effective.
You can get rid of entire rows without using a Jenga pistol, too. You just have to be fast.
> The world needs a WikiLeaks 3.0, one that looks like the original 1.0 (the actual wiki before the cable leaks).

Sounds a lot like cryptome? I recall reading a rather level-headed argument from Young (of cryptome) about not joining (or was it leaving) wikileaks -- over among other things the need (or rather lack there of) for the massive donation drives/big budgets of wikileaks. While Yong might not be entirely neutral wrt wikileaks -- all I've read by him on the matter have been rather straight forward and on point. I can't find the exact kibk, but it may have been the pdf-document on "wikileaks finances" -- or (more kikely) an email thread that was intended to set up an interview with comments from Yong on wikileaks - but somewhat amusingly failed to what I can only describe as culture shock/mismatch between the interviewer and the subject:

http://cryptome.org/0001/wikileaks-views.htm