skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They still use photons... and nearly all cameras are sensitive to frequencies outside visible spectrum.
Inside Project Loon: Google's Internet in the sky is almost open for business
5 Things to know about App to App communications
There was regular trade between Australia and Indonesia from the 1500's onwards, well before the Europeans turned up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makassan_contact_with_Australia
Elon Musk made a related tweet. The current rocket doesn't have enough extra propellant to land after a geosynchronous mission, but upgrades are coming that will allow it:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/572257004938403840
The Two Mindsets
Atlassian Stash Data Center is open for business; Stash used by 13,000+ orgs
- Bill Gates only owns about $13Billion of Microsoft stock directly.

- Over half of his net worth is in Cascade Investment LLC, a private investment fund run by Michael Larson. Mr Larson appears to be singularly responsible for Bill Gates' return to the top.

- The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation is worth over $42 Billion, and is not included in Bill Gates' net worth

http://www.wsj.com/articles/this-mans-job-make-bill-gates-ri...
Techcrunch thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9131700
That's pretty much standard operating procedure. You don't want to open the company up to a legal challenge as an interviewer...
While inflation can be seen as a pricing factor, the way the Dow is calculated is unique (in a bad sense), and it's the worst example and not applicable to Nasdaq. Here's the methodology behind Nasdaq (very similar to other international indices) https://indexes.nasdaqomx.com/docs/methodology_COMP.pdf
They can see what the inbound referrer is to their page.
WSJ thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9132319
I don't know how WSJ does, but Press+, a vendor used by many local newspapers uses Local Storage to assign a GUID, and then they track the GUID. It's easily defeated.
Ask HN: Easy to use service to handle applications
This is for an academic institution which needs to receive applications for eg scholarships, conferences, etc. Forms need to handle typical personal data, accept documents, send confirmations, store everything online, and provide a simple front-end to query all the information stored. Happy to install it on own server but would prefer something maintained and hosted by a third party so they control security, etc.
At what point is it more planet-friendly to manufacture a new energy-efficient underpowered low-end PC, rather than repurpose an old power-hungry low-end PC?
EnChroma – Color for the Color Blind
Show HN: Lazy evaluation in Python
I mentioned it because the company itself was plugged in the post.

Also there's a bit of irony involved, where they're extolling the virtues of data, but failing to provide proper interview feedback.
iSEC Partners - San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, New York City - Job Title - Security Engineer; Security Engineering Intern

I'll make this short. I've got too much whining about winter to do.

If you love security and research, iSEC just may be a perfect fit for you.

You will spend most of your day thinking about security systems and how they can break. This is a very creative job that gives individuals a lot of freedom to be clever while learning new technologies at a very fast pace. Typical engagements will pair you with another experienced security consultant who you will learn from and teach along the way. Engagements are usually 2-4 weeks long. In a year, you will be exposed to 15-20 products and technology stacks. Your work will typically initiate person-months of security improvements in products millions of people use. You will have access to senior engineers/architects and your findings/ideas will be heard by senior decision makers. You will have enormous impact in making the software people use safer. All of our consultants are also security researchers, with dedicated research time.

We like to let our research speak for itself: https://isecpartners.github.io/

Check out all of our career opportunities here: https://www.isecpartners.com/about/careers.aspx

We're always looking for folks passionate about what we do. We'd love to hear from you!
It would be hilarous if that was a honeypot that led to a completely useless, sandboxed admin panel..
I read that story, it's amazing; one of my favourite short stories ever.

Which reminded me of another related story, Superiority, by Arthur C. Clarke[0]. From what I heard, it's actually a required reading at Westpoint.

[0] - http://www.mayofamily.com/RLM/txt_Clarke_Superiority.html
For a while there, Larry Page was cutting a lot of Google services. Now, we're getting much more bloat.

Has sensibility run out at Google?
Sounds a lot better than going into the station blind, thinking you'll make it for morning team meeting, only to hear the voice of GLaDOS tell you how shitty your commute is actually going to be.
Python is one of the oldest implementations and I ought to do a another pass through to clean it up sometime.

I'm happy to take pull requests that make an implementation shorter and/or more idiomatic as long as it doesn't change the overall order/flow (and doesn't break any of the tests of course).
I am quite emotional because the people at canon and Sony had f*cked me so many times in the past.

The Gopro has solved most of my problems. I am a geek and use my cameras for crazy things like 3d recognition of spaces, with my drones, robotics.

The GoPro is the camera that gets in my way the least of all the cameras I had tested.

Image quality for me is quite good. But nothing replaces basic knowledge of video making that probably would solve most of your issues.

When you say they have good marketing... well their videos are made by professionals. Any pro with any camera could do marvels, but with some cameras takes more effort than with others.
I though that

-XX:+AggressiveOpts

is a noop these days.
thanks. that makes more sense. probably the registrar uses IIS, then.

got a downvote for that, btw. weirdest downvote ever. maybe I upset some hardcore IIS fan or something?
Indeed. This is an "all your eggs in one basket" issue. Google's cloud is the most dangerous thing in the world, because it's the most tempting target in the world. All of the data about practically everyone in one place.
He is talking about power not cost to build it.
Alibaba is listed on the NYSE, so it isn't included in the NASDAQ composite index.
Highways, bullet trains, tons of research grants...
Although I think people superestimate the wealth of some leaders (like Putin and Khadaffi when he was alive), there is some people much wealthier than Bill Gates.

I met once a guy that worked for some banks that handled middle-east money, and he said it was not uncommon to see some accounts moving around numbers with a crazy amount of zeroes, although he didn't knew what was personal money, what was family money, and what was company money, the amount of money flow still was much, much more than what western people move... but middle easterns don't care about disclosing it.
... because you think WordPress doesn't scale horizontally? That's... look, you should probably ask your doctor about WordPress.com. Or any reasonably large WordPress site.
Yeah...pretty much anything mentioning Cardelli needs an upvote. He's a brilliant guy and a very clear, understandable writer.
> Only the legacy consideration is recent, everything else (including racial consideration) has been happening for at least 20 years. But I was responding to the quote that Caltech selects "purely" for academics. They don't, they look at a number of factors.

Fair enough. Thanks for the correction. However, I still don't think their official statements are very meaningful unless backed up by actual results.

>> CalTech's stated admission policies to be mere lip service

> They also have an outreach program.

Oh sure, but these aren't admissions policies. Sorry, I'm not trying to start a fight on semantics, but I do think (especially in the context of this article) that having outreach programs is importantly different than changing the admissions procedure.
Checking the referrer header.
I wonder what would anyone do with a trillion dollars... I really can't comprehend this numbers...
That's a shameful misrepresentation of what's happening here.
It's available at no charge, but it's not free.
Xiaomi introduces $63 GoPro competitor
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Bill gates keep selling shares on several companies and donating stuff, also he does not do any "work" anymore, he only do volunteer stuff.

Why his net worth keeps increasing?
I deleted a post about the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox and how these machines were in fact not green.

I was wrong.

Given the right uses, like an elementary school computer lab for learning Scratch, Logo, etc; they would be fine.

The problem is they are right on the cusp of the next cycle of Moore's Law, Raspberry Pi is now quad core and 1GB, it puts it in the same class as this machine. The cost of "good enough" compute hardware is going to zero (shipping, financial trans cost will dominate).
"you also have to add the cost of a monitor + keyboard + mouse AND the fact that everybody wants (needs?) a laptop these days."

Not really...

with RDP/SSH/Telnet/etc, you can access this without the need a dedicated keyboard/mouse/monitor.

Also, I can live without a laptop due to my "phablet". I already have a desktop. Something like this would be a good for hiding a server (or two) somewhere.

The question is... the energy saved by reusing this. The energy saved by not destroying this. The landfill space not taken up by this...

Is it enough to offset the energy savings on newer pc's that are more powerful but use less energy? What is the tipping point that makes a new machine better?
Good resource. Added.
Obviously, you're free to ask this question. I wouldn't like it, but it's hardly outrageous. I'm free to decline to answer if I choose.

I would say one thing here, though… if the candidate is active on github, maintains a technical blog, and perhaps has done some speaking at conferences or meet ups with video links, it doesn't look great when the interviewer asks this question (are you a good programmer?). It may imply that the interviewer 1) hasn't bothered learning much about the candidate, or 2) is unable to learn much about a candidate and/or isn't able to assess the information.

I know this is an extreme example, but would you ask bob dylan "are you a good songwriter?" Or even a more obscure person who still has a fine presence on the web. It's like, uh, my work is right there, have you listened to it?
Keep in mind that your average resident of Orange County, California is likely more conservative (for some reasonable definition of the word) than your average resident of Athens, Georgia. (I jumped out of Alabama, but I hope my point is clear.)

The American people aren't nearly as polarized as the American people think.
I did the same thing this morning with the intention of recreating the web page from the first panel of the comic, but someone beat me to it to make this redirection (which have to admit I find less cool than my (and I guess many others) idea).
>Are you expressing the inaccurate belief that everything in the world is made in your country? //

They didn't mention a country. The enemies of Islam, as expressed in the Koran, are those who don't follow Mohammed's religion.

Unless all the workers creating those goods are muslims then the GP post seems accurate in that point.

I don't recall anything proscribing use of an enemies technology against them from what I've read in the Koran and Hadith however. Indeed it seems that the approach is more along the lines of anything goes provided it benefits Mohammed and his followers.
If you read all the http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Comics_fe... , many/most of them follow similar themes to this. It's more of a continuation of a character than a self-contained joke.
To be clear, the use of local storage in this context is expressly intended to be temporary, to store a draft locally while editing, then you publish to a stable server.

But your comments about Local Storage are spot on. Use it as a cache, not a file system.
Content sites scale horizontally at the caching layer--via a CDN, typically. The CMS exists to feed the cache, and should see very little traffic at the application.
I think he is happier for what he has done with Microsoft more than his net worth.Money is only the consequence of a good job.
Just received this note from AWS that they've figured out how to reduce this % to less than 0.1%.

"Since then, the team has been working around the clock to find ways to minimize the impact for those requiring a reboot. We're happy to share that we'll now be able to live-update ‎the vast majority of our older hardware for this Xen Security Advisory. This means that over 99.9% of our total EC2 instances will receive the live-update and avoid a reboot. We can also now assure you that all newly launched instances will land on updated capacity, which means for the less than 0.1% of total EC2 instances that require a reboot, you can proactively re-launch these instances in order to avoid the assigned reboot timing (if you prefer)."
It appears they've backed off on the royalties, too: originally, it was 5% of gross[1], and now it's 5% of gross after $3000 sales per quarter.[2]

1 https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/welcome-to-unreal-engine-4

2 https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/ue4-is-free
While I agree with the overall assertion that Wordpress is ridiculously bloated, slow and insecure, a lot of the specific things you mentioned have nothing to do with it and actually are pretty sensible features for websites of a certain size.

For example, the built-in Cron thing is invaluable for smaller shared hosting installations, which do not allow you to schedule actual Cron jobs. Moreover, it allows you to copy Wordpress (or unroll if from a database backup) without having to worry about recreating those Cron jobs.

Not everyone has root access to their hosting. Heck, not everyone has shell access to their hosting. Even people who do do not always have time and expertise to set up, maintain and use Docker/Puppet/openVZ or whatever you use for sysops.

one PHP file which rules them all

What do you mean?
This list is static and not really useful given the swings in net worth of people. A far better and modern list is the bloomberg billionaires index, it is updated nearly daily.

http://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/2015-02-27/aaa
mal C implementation: https://github.com/kanaka/mal/tree/master/c

Caveat, no GC. Although that could probably be added easily using the Boehm GC. I plan to do so at some point assuming nobody beats me to it.
Saying Ubuntu has fewer "apps and games" than Android is both meaningless and false.
But the union won't crash either (the compiler will keep it aligned), the conversion compiles to no-op, and doesn't waste memory.

Embedded targets are always memory-constrained. If they aren't, you are wasting money on hardware.
The side by side articles reminds me of TiddlyWiki - a self-contained personal wiki.

It's a feature I would like to see more use of, as the context of a subject is often spread across multiple pages.
Smart. Their previous revenue model was contradictory. Now it makes sense, they want to remove all barriers for building your game on UE4, and focus on making money if you are successful.
Technical merits aside, Weka is GPL-licensed (commercial licenses available), and this library Apache 2.0.
It is free as in beer, which is the natural definition of "free" for most people.
Would it be that difficult though to have a modified Bayer filter with an RGBI array instead of RGBG?

You would have to use different dyes for all pixels, since the currently used ones let IR light pass, but it doesn't sound that difficult to do (since we already have both IR-pass and IR-block filters).
> The article does not claim that the glasses prevent face detection.

Their first image seems to be showing the difference between detecting and not detecting a face ("Facebook detects a face" and "No face detected").

Comments like this, too:

"They claim to break face detection when the lights are on."

So I assumed they were claiming it breaks face detection.
Yeah; the initial title said "is now Free", suggesting by lack of capitalization of "now" and capitalization of "Free" that it was being open-sourced. I'm glad that the edited title uses lowercase for that word.
As a general rule headlines from 'The Register' should probably not be copied directly regardless of the rules on this website.

Actual headline: "FORK ME! Uber hauls GitHub into court to find who hacked database of 50,000 drivers"
Have you tried Consumer Cellular?
The Unreal Engine is free neither as beer, or freedom.

Its free as in a mob protection money is given freely, with a lot of strings attached.

Overall a very smart strategy. Free Software Walled Gardens I highly believe will start to become a common thing in the software industry. As you get most the benefits of Free Software, without the normally feared industry risks.
biomimic - if you built this are you willing to discuss the underlying technology and business model a bit?

I am curious about your corpus source for making the connections; company filings, company websites, financial news, other - all of the above?

Are you also clustering topics rather than just doing keyword level connections?

If it is not a trade secret can you discuss what text mining approaches you take with this service?

How do you see investors using this?

What is your business model?
I'm not aware of an security implications of knowing the application version.

If it's properly patched, it doesn't matter if the bad guys know you're running the patched version.

If it's not properly patched, automated exploit attempts will succeed whether or not they can see the version number.
It's not rocket science but it's not instinct either.
What/who defines the appropriate behavior in a business context. I say this because I've read books on appropriate business behavior in the context american vs chinese businesses, and its different.

People have different interpretations of what appropriate behavior is in different contexts.
Example: in some southern cities in the us, its weird or rude not to say hello to strangers on the street.
In New york, its weird and rude to say hello to strangers on the street.

How do people actually learn whats appropriate in business context ?

Personally I read books like Corporate Confidential, How to make friends and influence people to learn it, but I found it far from easy.

edit: anecdote: I've had women business managers compliment my hair style, I didn't feel it was inappropriate.
Reading the paper is useful, too. I'm quite impressed by the algorithm they developed.
The forth and OCaml implementations were written from scratch by chouser (Chris Houser of "Joy of Clojure"). The rest were written from scratch by yours truly (kanaka/Joel Martin). However, it looks like there are a number of other implementations happening by other people now that HN has made it more visible.
Nope, interned strings are no longer in PermGen since "forever" http://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6962931. Also if you really care about this you'd likely be better of running Java 8u20 or later which automatically deduplicates Strings.

Reasons for running with -XX:MaxPermSize=1G that I can imagine:

* you run Java 7 (which goes EOL in March)
* and one of those:
* your code base is twice as large as Eclipse and JBoss combined
* you have a PermGen leak
* you have no idea what you're doing
I don't see the reason for downvotes. The parent's sentiment is pointed, but has merit. It's initially doesn't cost anything, but if you want to charge for a game, it costs you. You also don't get many freedoms along with it, you gain no rights on the code and are bound to whatever Epic comes up with later.
How does it fare against Unity?

My understanding, from previous versions, is that Unity offered a lot more tooling than Unreal. Also, Unreal's SDK demanded a lot of C++ code, which can be unappealing for small studios compared to Unity's Mono and several possible (managed) language choices.

However, Unreal appears to be much more capable, and better performing.

Also, is Crytek still competitive? It used to be competitive with Epic's offering, but was Windows-only.

EDIT: Unreal does have a comparison page for Unity developers: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/GettingStarted/From...
Fair—but they won't have the opportunity without the subpoena. Point is, the subpoena means nothing bad about github itself.
It's free as beer until you take a sip from the glass.

Also, the US isn't the land of the cheap sakes, which kind of doesn't fit "for most".
Round.me Gets $3M in Funding to Continue Growth
I don't know what Wired did, but for general hardening advice the WP community has a pretty good page:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress
investments, along with the rate of return to wealth in investment markets being greater than the economic growth rate (http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/05/ec...)
It's a good but difficult question to answer if one wants to break into the details of it.

The process of manufacturing all of the components likely results externalities that are represented in the price. There is also the cost of how the disposed machine is processed.

You can also factor in the user behaviors. My grandmother probably is not going to leave her desktop powered on for longer than the 1 hour or so per day that she might use it. People here, myself included, are probably used to running their machines 24-7.

There's also the perspective that if this machine is going to a 10 year old kid, that it's a machine s/he can break and it won't be a big deal. This can be a significant advantage for a low income home.
Until Raspberry Pi can get their power supply problems under control, they really aren't good enough to use as any kind of workstation.
It's free as in a bank loan with no time frame for repayment.
tl;dr; geeky writers put an equation for the mass of the Higg's boson in an episode
Several friends of mine work at the Gates Foundation up here in Seattle and they comment a lot about the pressure they're under to GIVE AWAY the Gates' money faster. There's a running "joke" internally there (Gates himself does not find it funny and puts a lot of pressure internally on the folks responsible) that it's been nearly impossible to outspend Gates' financial gains as his own wealth keeps growing too fast.

Kind of a funny thought.
It's free enough for most hobbyist game developers, many of whom will never make enough (or anything at all, really) from their games to matter.

You want ideological purity? Go write your own system.
Check out some videos on the UE4 Blueprints system (flowchart programming). I'm pretty impressed at the product they created there, IIRC there are some games made on Blueprints alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFZCp4xsPmo : Unreal Engine 4 Blueprints in Solus (1h)
According to Netcraft, IIS (Microsoft) has about 27% marketshare, and I occasionally see an ASPX extension every now and then. No good reason you wouldn't see an IIS header, but I don't know why someone would downvote you for not noticing things.

[1]http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/01/15/january-2015-we...
Framed in this way the question becomes: can American Democracy get by with a few bug patches, or does it need to be re-written from the ground up?
The invisible network that keeps the world running
There is almost an order of magnitude difference between 128MB and 1GB.