skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's nice. What other corporate products must I consume in order to be a validated member of your social caste?

Whats funny is that you could actually bring up this topic with fans of mainstream sports (especially for the NFL) and probably get a decent discussion going. Just mention things like TV timeouts and you'll probably get some level of agreement on how annoying things have gotten these days.

Of course, if you phrase it in a way similar to how you did above, people will most likely just think you were an asshole.
"Hardware doesn’t make money for Jawbone today"

Hard to believe given the retail cost of their product line.
Unfortunately, this means they're going to have to make their money elsewhere...

"the Nest doesn’t know if you’re hot or cold. I will."

I like the idea of these fitness trackers, but this seems to be the endgame for the business models of all the companies involved (whether or not they admit it).
I think your analogy has confused some people but yes, that's what he's saying. I believe he's confused "800 rounds in a minute" -- which is impossible -- with "800 rounds per minute" -- which is a rate of fire that can be reached but only for periods much shorter than a minute.
todo.view = function() {
return m("html", [
m("body", [
m("input"),
m("button", "Add"),
m("table", [
m("tr", [
m("td", [
m("input[type=checkbox]")
]),
m("td", "task description"),
])
])
])
]);
};

That's some sample view code right?

The heck is that?

With IDE support being so good why would I ever subject myself to using non-html view code anymore? There is no way I want to do a complex site in that kind of syntax, that's just crazy.
ModX - a PHP cms which is fairly popular has a static site exporter. I havent' played with modx in a while, hopefully it's still a feature since their many updates in the last 5 years.
ElasticSearch is a fantastic document database in its own right. It gives you everything CouchBase does, is obscenely scalable, AND it does search.
(Note that rpdillon is just a commenter, not a Sandstorm dev. But, yes, this is a good idea.)
One of the classic such attacks is van Eck phreaking, picking up EM emissions from CRTs. [1] I'm not sure if other techniques could be used for LCDs.

There have been several papers published about keyboard acoustic sidechannels as well.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
A year or so ago there was a security researcher who claimed that he had machines which were being compromised through some sort of side-channel attack like this. It was reported on a couple times on Ars Technica I know, and there was debate in the security community whether he was on to something or whether he had simply snapped and was being paranoid. As I understood it he was a well-respected guy in the field. What ever happened to him? After reading a couple reports, and that he was going to be sending hard drives to some colleagues to get a second opinion, I never saw any followup. Anybody know?
No, that's not the issue. I actually am using forever. I'm not entirely sure what the problem was, but I think the entire VPS was falling over, so when it comes back there is nothing to kick off forever. It is fixed, now, though, by letting Apache serve the static files. I'm not a sysadmin and I've never had anywhere near this much traffic before.
No, you didn't, I missed that CMD+OPT+SPACE is already used on OS X. I've changed it to CMD+OPT+E now.

Between the OS and the browser, there aren't many friendly keyboard shortcuts left.
Honestly. Pencil.

Every single programming book I own, that I've actually read, is covered in hand written notes.

I also tape post-it notes onto important pages with more notes as bookmarks.

It's free. Easy. Random access. Read/write friendly. "No sign-up required".
I agree with your first point entirely, but there is precedent in industry for putting starved-plate tube stages in things just for marketing.

A "great" component in a shitty design can sound worse than a "shitty" component in a great design. I just have a feeling that the marketing push to "Just put a tube in it" will lead to more of these "token" tube applications because it's cheaper to run it at whatever voltage rail is already there than putting some hulking transformer just to run a 300V B+ rail for a single preamp stage.

The headroom thing is all relative, I don't think your amp would be too happy if you fed it a 300V P-P signal from your 3kV Audiophile-Grade-Headroom pedalboard...

I also can't wait for the 64-bit digital audio revolution. Nothing with less than 384dB of dynamic range is worth listening to! /s
German translation: http://blog.fdik.org/2015-01/s1422553522
Actually, that's where this project came from. Several months ago, we had had a conversation about the difficulties of integrating text input in WebVR. https://github.com/brianpeiris/RiftSketch/issues/13

After New Years, I got the bug in me to work on this and just knuckled down on it. Though, Brian appears to be happy with where he is, now.
>When a kids says, "Hockey. Meh. It is a bunch grown men with sticks chasing a black piece of rubber around a sheet of ice"

When somebody says that, you just have to rephrase them a'la T-Rex. "It's a bunch of scientists stating their hypothesis that they're the best at using wooden sticks to direct the motion of a vulcanized rubber puck across a surface with a friction coefficient of .15!" [1] and then hockey becomes a collaborative science experiment, repeated twice a week, and broadcast on television.

[1]: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2421
Yes, it's in the TODO list. But I was very urgently wanting to release this month. Thanks.
Out of curiosity, what do gun ownership limitations have to do with US national security?
I liked that, but none of the player's choices purported to be very important, either.
That's what I'm doing now. I thought I'd need to have both on the same port, but I was wrong.
Your answer to 1 sounds like the answer they want to hear, but note that aN^2 is the cost per person, not of the whole city. Your explanation justifies a cost of aN per person. The question is also really vague, I hate questions where you don't find the correct answer, but rather try to infer what the teacher wants to hear. In a real city the costs per person are obviously not aN and certainly not aN^2 because the number of people that you have to meet does not scale linearly with the amount of people in the city. That would imply that if people in a village of 1000 people have a total meeting cost of $10 per person, then the people in new york have a total meeting cost of $80,000 per person. That's obviously ridiculous. Their aN^2 would imply that the total meeting cost in new york is $640,000,000 per person which is beyond ridiculous.
So I'm not allowed to dislike sports? It makes me a snob?
"Of course, if you phrase it in a way similar to how you did above, people will most likely just think you were an asshole."

Of course, a similar thought most likely crossed my mind when I read the parent comment.
Thank you. You have no idea how much that means to me. That's exactly why I'm working on VR projects right now, that "year from now" that you mentioned. I'm specifically going for WebVR because I believe the browser environment to be the most conducive to rapid prototyping
I'm having issues like that with several apps lately and I'm thinking it's a Java thing.
Also has a song about it (kind of)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvTv-I2Y390
I'm not sure what these products do that the Garmin I wear doesn't do, but my vivoFit has made it 10 months so far without a battery charge. It's worked fine the entire time - syncing daily.
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Exactly. Sports aren't a healthy part of society. They are games mean to occupy the less curious people of our culture so they don't get bored and dissatisfied with their existence. There is nothing healthy about sports culture. The socialization is entirely tribal and the impact on humanities future is non-existent.

Imagine if we game all our attention and praise to teachers and all of our money to successful charities. Imagine if it was a cutthroat competition to become the first team of intellectuals to solve today's difficult problems.

Just because a vocal majority aren't hurting anyone, doesn't mean I have some moral obligation to respect your choices that do nothing for anyone.
I like this. The next step down must surely be the Super City. In New Zealand the Auckland "Super City" would love to be a mega city. Auckland's fragmented and disconnected transport system, chaotic local government arrangements and expensive attempts at integration make it substantially less than a megacity. That and the low population count.
They did it first! :)
Ditto on this. I have no idea what I'm signing up for...
Looks like you guys are doing some awesome stuff! I'll have to keep you in mind if I ever decide to leave my cushy DevOps job in Troy.
too much hate on the ribbon. it's the logical choice a lot of people would make once menus get too busy. I don't love searching for things in the ribbon, but I certainly wouldn't love locating menu options either. At least the ribbon lends itself to contextual behaviors.
This matches my experience as well. I still enjoy playing certain sports, but watching them, especially on TV, bores me to tears. It always has.

It has certainly affected bonding with other men as well.
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Cognitive dissonance: the phrase "cultivated disinterest" precedes the sentence "With a little effort, getting into sports is easy."

I'm not saying that looking down on people for their interests isn't small-minded or awful. But I definitely disagree with the idea that you have to cultivate a lack of interest in a topic.

Also, consider this instead: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/10/the-case...

As a first-generation American, the fact that you're more likely to pay for college with a sports scholarship than an academic one seems completely insane to me.
I've been a big fan of Joystiq, but I stopped visiting regularly when Google killed Reader. Guess I should have visited more often :(
LA County and SoCal too perhaps?
It just takes a certain type of person to be a freelancer that can deal with clients, and I am not that person. I had "good" high paying clients that were still not fun to work with. It's probably less about them and more about me wanting to control every aspect of the product.
This doesn't just apply to sports. Most people don't share my enthusiasm for math and science but most people are enthusiastic about something. I enjoy asking people what they do for fun, or about an interesting (to them) project they may be working on. Almost any topic can be interesting when explained by someone with the right passion. Even if I don't especially care about a given topic it's not too much work to appreciate why someone else might, which is a good way to avoid being a snobbish jerk.
To be fair, he was just responding in kind. Clearly the enemy soldiers had done the same thing while he was gone.
I think their point was valid, but they didn't think it through enough. It's good to make things you don't want to do or need to do a lot of efficient in the sense of optimizing away time, energy, or money. It's bad to optimize away things that you actually like to do.

I think an app like this could optimize away a weak link to arriving a place you want to be. That is, deciding when to initiate a conversation and coming up with an opening. The conversation itself is the valuable thing you want to spend time in. The opening of a comm channel is, in some conceptions, simply protocol.

Of course, it does take away the choice of thinking that you want to communicate at that moment, which can start to make it seem like an intrusion into your time and change the way you regard the conversation. I think it depends on the person and their evolving circumstances as to whether the removal of choice in this regard is advantageous.
So basically it's saying that removing the names and addresses isn't sufficient to anonymize a data set. Didn't we already know that 10 years ago?

They are saying you just need to know 4 times and places that a person has been, and you have a 90% chance of identifying their entire history via the user_id in the data set. And if you know the price of a transaction they made, the probability goes up. Is that very surprising?
I believe this is the EFF project you're referencing, for the curious: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
A. I don't think that whatever tax breaks those industries get, that they compare in scope to the obscenity that is the National Football League.

B. I tend not to go to "tent pole" movies (well, occasionally) nor really consume a lot of blockbuster type music. Those would likely be the largest consumers of subsidies, or at least I'd guess that.

C. Music and movies occasionally intersect with "art" which I mostly support some subsidy of.

You did ask a good, thought provoking question. But as I said, I do like sports, and do use some of my discretionary spending to attend games. I don't support the massive subsidies that professional sports in the US gets.
New algorithm can separate unstructured text into topics with high accuracy
It was a rule long before then, at least by the late '60s when I first started learning. Can't remember when Cooper codified his rules, but I'd suspect it was earlier than the '80s.

However I was taught by my father in the hunting domain, where Rule 2 rules, "Never let the muzzle cover something you're not willing to destroy", i.e. keep it pointed in a safe direction. That was because you never knew if a twig or the like might pull the trigger (see the problem with holstering striker fired handguns which catch e.g. a windbreaker cinch tie), and you don't trust safeties. The iffy history of the Remington 700 underlines the importance of Rule 2 (known to fire upon manipulating the safety).
Everything on the internet is rooted in SEO, by design. Google has the intent that truly fascinating things be given the most visibility on the internet, that has nothing to do with studying up how to appear at the top of google's list and everything to do with studying how to be fascinating to people on the internet.
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> I built a large angular application while there, but it is now built and there are other developers who can support it.

what startup/company was this again?
Living in a major city in the Southwest, I see Tesla sedans frequently, a little bit more often than Maserati sedans, but not nearly as often as large S-Class or G-Class MB vehicles. Before they went bust, I did see two Fisker Karmas around town. To me, the Tesla is fundamentally a status symbol that happens to be usable.

I think Tesla exists in a very odd bubble within Government and Market forces. Taking a $400 Million + loan, then replacing it with investor money, and still angling to get Federal & State tax credits to make it priced "competitvely" to other luxury sedans doesn't seem like the technology is really the innovation. It's an impressive bit of engineering, sure, but the past and present indicate it's not truly priced similarly, it's subsidized to incentivize buyers.
Retiring in your 30's? What an age we live in. What an industry we work in.
That's all fine and dandy, I've never had an interest in watching sports on TV and I would rather spend my CPU cycles in other stuff. Time is a precious resource and I have other priorities and other hobbies/interests for which I actually care. That said, I do enjoy watching live games and occasionally playing some sports with friends.
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Hi, thanks. Yes, I know it's not nice to people who need such things, and I really would like to support them soon, but I was only able to get just so much done in a month.
for those of you who like the idea but don't want to wait, check out the ergodox. Similar, but slightly more ergonomic design (albeit with a steeper learning curve). The firmware is already open source, and massdrop has an AWESOME UI for building custom layouts and downloading the firmware for it.

Unfortunately no one really sells them pre-assembled though...Massdrop (and a few other places) does group buys on kits regularly, with an option for getting the more difficult components soldered up for a reasonable fee of $10 or so.

http://ergodox.org/

https://www.massdrop.com/ext/ergodox
I just find that trying to live vicariously through other men is emasculating. I will play a pickup game with any of my working class neighbors any day of the week. But I'm not going to talk about the players like they're people I know (like men do in my barber shop). Call it what you will. I connect with working class folks better still than these (mostly) white privileged bubble inhabiting social dilettantes.
> The Russians in WWII used a submachine gun, copied from the Finns, to great effect in the urban battle of Stalingrad, the Germans reacted by developing the assault rifle, later copied by the Russians, and eventually by everyone else.

Disc magazine was copied from Finns, PPSH itself was based on earlier PPD designs which were done roughly at the same time as Finns Suomi sub-guns were developed.
It's a bit surprising that they get such accuracy from so little information.

The obvious case is a lot of information can identify people with greater than chance probibility.
See https://finbot.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/toward-a-new-theory/. It's not my blog.
Yes. While I mean no disrespect the pass to fail ratio on them is 5:1 or worse. I've got to check so that when I pay for an hour of work I get an hour of value.

I read blog posts to the contrary. They say how awful it is that these "dumb HR people" ask these basic things. Well, I've probably done 200 technical interviews, mostly from HN, and unfortunately this is my experience.

If I must choose between unpopular and ineffective, then bring on the fizzbuzz. If you do pass the screen, I guarantee you those you will be working with are smart and effective too. So effective and so enjoyable in fact, that I keep doing these interviews in order to find them!

@jacquesm - You are internet famous, I love your blog and admire your work. I know we're on different sides of this. If you care to pick this apart, I will read it with an open mind and respond as factually as I can.
Tell HN: Don't work for companies that use hackerrank
This is not a way to evaluate programmers. This is taking the stupidity of the white board programming challenges and injecting it with steroids.

This is just another step down the path towards the commoditization and lower status of programmers.

Software development is an art, as well as a science, and a good engineer is able to architect systems, even small ones, and is able to comprehend the interaction of several modules of code.

Not bang out some crap that produces the correct results in a very narrow challenge.

Never mind that hackerrank is poorly implemented- it has numerous bugs (because it was clearly written by the kind of people who think hacker rank is a good idea- those who think speed is paramount over quality[1]) Numerous times it would not take submissions that were pasted into the editor (I used an external editor, Atom, because the syntax highlighting was correct for my language). It is limited in its languages and finicky in them. The errors are often incorrect, resulting in the rejection of working code. etc. etc.

But even if hacker rank were well implemented it is measuring only two things- speed and whether the output meets the criteria set by the creator of the test. This output criteria can often be wrong or more narrow than correct results.

And speed of banging out lines of code is not a measure of a programmer.

So, use this test and you'll get the people who don't understand software engineering, lack significant experience but can produce a lot of code quickly.

But not elegant systems... and you'll be slower to market and less nimble as a result.

[1] It isn't, not even in a startup. Speed to market is about getting a working product to market. This is slowed down by poorly engineered messes that don't work.
...not sure. could make the argument that HN attracts more 'intellectuals/non-sports fans', if we're making that classification. And therefore it's a topic of universal interest here (not that that makes it topical)

worth noting though, that the separation of the two groups [educated/non-sports] and [sports] is probably related to cost of activities ($basketball < $computers or tutors) and also related to the simple probability that top x% intellectuals and top x% athletes aren't likely to overlap. Everyone in-between is then forced to pick sides/friends...and sports-talk is super social/accessible.
> How so? Taking part in the things most inherent in your culture is arguably a good thing.

Is it really? I'm not a Christian but that would be an easy way for me to have something in common with most of America.

And the value of "it's good to go with the flow" isn't arguably good: http://mic.com/articles/92479/psychologists-have-uncovered-a...
Having a valid reason why some activity is intrinsically bad (e.g. fast food) is very different from disliking such activities because they are "beneath" you. Sports are widely loved and not intrinsically bad. (I'd even argue that fast food itself is not intrinsically bad, but that's a different discussion)

However, even expressing contempt for intrinsically bad activities can be interpreted as offensive and hostile. There's a difference between saying something is bad, and saying that someone is bad because they participate in or enjoy it. Making people feel bad for eating McDonalds is unlikely to make or keep friends and is therefore by definition a problem with your social skills.
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> warfighter

Just out of curiosity, when did this word crop up? To me it seems like some kind of odd DoD invention to supplant more traditional words like "soldier", but I don't know anything about the etymology.
I would guess that you are thinking of Dragos Ruiu and the "BadBIOS" malware.
I don't completely understand the argument you're making, so please correct me if I'm misunderstanding you, but I think I see the problem.

It is true that in an inertial frame you can send a signal between two points. But if you have an inertial frame which is falling into a black hole any signal sent from beneath the event horizon will not reach any other point until that point has also fallen beneath the event horizon.

Remember that the inertial frame is in free fall, so points which are fixed in the inertial frame are moving according to a distant observer.
That's heavy, and makes me seriously want to play This War of Mine; I'll have to check it out on steam when I get home.
>Just two and a half years ago (...) over $610,000 in sales.

I think this is then not profitable. The risk was high and this is only gross revenue here.

Only a percent of the games makes the profits, that answer the question.
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Definitely in agreement with you, re: Tesla and what true automotive innovation should be like now and in the future.

I've kept my eye on Local Motors for quite a while, and finally decided to participate in a challenge that might be of interest to you as well...the LITECAR Challenge. Looks to be about 80 entries so far, some more viable than others, as it's an international / un-vetted forum with general guiding principles and cash prizes.

Link: https://localmotors.com/arpa-e/litecar-challenge/
slava @ rethink here.

I think this sentence is just phrased poorly. It means to convey that there is no atomicity across multiple documents, which is unrelated to the previous sentence. I've opened an issue to fix that: https://github.com/rethinkdb/docs/issues/633. Thanks for noticing!