skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've actually already solved this problem pre Apple Watch. It's called Blister Packs, which basically is an arrangement of the medications of when a patient is supposed to take them.
Most monitors do this now with a USB hub, except you have two cables (video and usb).

Too bad USB-C didn't also do microphone in.
Well in this case having an Apple device doesn't seem to help much.
I never got that quote.

Pine's license said "and," and so did the ISC license. FSF pointed that out and ISC changed the license. Now it says "and/or." Both OSI and FSF have approved the license. And then they added (updated?) the text you quoted, complaining about the use of "and/or" ?!

The problem with Pine seems to have been that it is/was a registered trademark (compare node.js/io.js). Also note the "Richard Stallman claims [...]" part of the Wikipedia article.

Also note that nobody actually sued anyone. And even if they would have, who says they would have won? (Never mind the fact that legal precedents don't really matter outside of the US.)

All things considered. I think we're good.

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Nothing wrong with choosing the MIT license though. Or the FreeBSD license. Or zlib, if you don't care about attribution.
How well does the Asus UX305 run Linux? I have a Macbook Air at the moment, but it has a couple of annoyances that I'd like to be rid of. However, I do like the build quality and the trackpad especially.
From the blog post it sounds like you primarily plan to be used as a "funnel" for employers that engage you, where you are like a super-recruiter bringing candidates that you have qualified yourself.

Do you plan for there to be an option for employers that aren't asking you to refer candidates to still see some view of the performance of a player? Either by paying some smaller fee or by allowing players to have public profiles with some sort of scores?
I never notice when my comments are replied to! Sorry for the delay:

The biggest change is that I used to get migraines from lack of sleep (even while sleeping 8-10 hours plus occasional naps). Now I can get 6 a night continuously and be more alert. But most importantly my quality of life improved drammatically on account of having probably 30 hours a week of migraine-hours removed.

I still occasionally get lack-of-sleep-migraines, but they are rare, and are usually well deserved (I have three children, a puppy, and an unwillingness to give up 'alone time' in order to sleep enough. It's a bad combination).
That doesn't jive with everything I've read - some of which here on HN - about universities. Grants, tenure, cost-cutting by administrators, ego, are all said to be sources of politics and distractions. And teaching, of course. Are they wrong?
Because free time is something disproportionately available to the privileged. I grew up in a household where money, even if it wasn't abundant, wasn't a huge concern, so I could spend my time outside of school learning math/computers. I've never had to keep a part-time job to put food on the table, spend anhours walking because I couldn't afford gas, or generally be forced to trade my time for money at a terrible ratio. There are people who have, many of whom are likely a better candidate than me, who might just not have the time or mental energy to get home and spend 6 hours hacking on microcontrollers.
Thanks for your detailed feedback.
again, as I said up top, "investor" might not be the right term, I think they want to be "business partners" and create a new-co...I'm not sure, and sorry for the confusion

My concerns are mainly on Section 2 and 9.
2- Since the NDA never defines who is the disclosing or receiving party, nor what information has been given by one to the other, can they eventually pursue legal action and only then trying to demonstrate that it was them who provided the information (very difficult for them anyways)

9- This is basically saying that they or us can do whatever we want with that information, right? If this is the case, what would be the point of the NDA anyways?
Ask HN: I want to learn Deep learning / machine learning
I'm a software engineer, mainly focused on apps and web development. In the past 2 years, I've been constantly bombarded with Machine learning and now, Deep Learning. I can only assert that this is a field that is growing and growing exponentially.

I would love to get into this field and any suggestions / recommendations on getting started would be appreciated!

Any pre-requisites needed to get started would be a big bonus. Not being in the field, I actually do not even know what the technical requirements are.

I also plan on creating a github repo listing all the resources and guides. Please help.
So I'm not allowed to use thumb drives anymore?
I agree with your larger sentiment, but disagree that current reactors are too dangerous.

Let's look at what happened at Fukushima:

1) Massive earthquake
2) Massive tsunami
3) Devastating fire
4) Complete loss of power to all control circuitry

An extreme worst-case scenario if there ever was one, and yet no one died.
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> Less legalese, I'm here to write code, not interpret law.

Is reading/understanding the License one time really that difficult? After your first read through, you basically just copy a text file into the root of your repo for each project and you're done...

For me, the license could be 1 paragraph or 1,000 pages. I only have to understand it once then it just becomes a standard part of any new repo I create.
I'm sure the name is from a much earlier movie (mid-80s), The Last Starfighter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Starfighter
Ask HN: Like Hemingway app, but for writing sales copy?
Hemingway [1] is fantastic at tightening up my normal writing, but for landing pages, sales letters and promotional emails it's not that helpful.

With the quantity of effective sales copy out there, it'd be great if software could help write higher-performing copy than I can on my own (not difficult).

I've not found any prior art - have you? If not, consider this a free software idea...

[ I have contacted the authors of HemingwayApp, but no response to date ]

1. http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
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Parks & Recreation made fun of "luxury milk" in a recent episode. It pains me to learn that they were parodying a real thing, not just making a joke.

(clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46iPFTCZ9LA)
I think I see what you mean: if this replaces interviews entirely then some people just won't be considered for the job because they have children. To me that sounds like a policy issue (it's illegal to discriminate based on irrelevant features to the job). I.e., not something that the designer of the CTF should be responsible for, but something a company could be very liable for if they aren't careful in how the apply the CTF.
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Is there a sample "pet shop" app?
That particular use case is apparently not expected by Apple to be a common use case for the target market of this particular device. Fortunately, other devices with different features focused on different usage patterns are available for purchase from Apple and other manufacturers. It's strange that this is at all controversial.
Try to upgrade to kernel v3.18.5+ or directly v3.19. My problems with thunderbolt are gone now after upgrading :)
No, just walk. Now that you know there is a client, go find the client yourself if you really want to pursue it. Most likely, it will be a waste of time and distraction to what you are trying to build anyway
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If people have neither the skills you need nor the free time to learn and demonstrate new skills, then there's few good ways to identify them.
Yes, is one of the archetypical creatures of internet. I bet that 99% of those people are lawyers... or maybe the author of the song.
One of the conventional complaints against CS-algorithm-heavy interviewing is that companies ask all these tough questions about distributed cache latency in red-black tree optimizations, then once they hire people, they're just bashing out PHP and MySQL. How do you make sure that the companies hiring your services have challenges that live up to the skills you're selecting for?
This is such an American comment to make
Intelligent Memory's are probably too expensive for the normal laptop market. Micron claims to be sampling them now: http://www.micron.com/products/dram-modules/sodimm/DDR3%20SD...
I might be in the odd camp here, but I think Github/Bitbucket et al should force the user to pick a license when creating a new repo.

Even if there's an option that says "proprietary", I'm OK with that...

It would get rid of all the ambiguity of stumbling upon a very wonderful project but being unsure if you can use it due to no explicit license.
Hidden in the article is a real gem:

The science of hiring practices is settled: work-sample tests are the most effective way to assess skill in potential hires.

This is one of the most obvious, yet under-applied truisms in hiring.

If they can apply Starfighter beyond Games, or enable non-Game skills to shine while working on Games, it will be industry changing.
Sounds very competitive, achiever-focused. Do all organizations want programmers who are viciously determined to win? Does that lead to society-efficient solutions?

(To elaborate a little, Richard Bartle noticed four types of players of MUD. Achievers are just one.)
This is laughably inaccurate. There are a ton of politics in an academic setting. Pressure to publish, to get grants and raise funding, grades and the financial pressures of being a grad student. You make it sound like people in school have unlimited time to sit back and think about big problems. It just replaces quarterly profits and management goals with conference paper deadlines and academic departmental goals.
Yeah, modular smartphones are definitely not the "End-Game for Convergence." Just because you think they're cool does not mean they will dominate the market in the way you want them to.
I just showed you a case where a threat constituted the conclusions the recipient jumped to. Do try to keep up.
There is a long-term PVP element to what we're doing, so we want as many players as we can get. We'll play with a number of different ways of matching talent to very smart employers, but our #1 overriding dominating design goal has to be to make players comfortable, so the game works.
This makes gets unreasonably excited. Love that it is open-sourced
> Again, all my personal opinion and does not rely on any confidential or non-public information. I was just a developer and have no knowledge of strategic decisions at Oracle.

This seems like the sort of polished addendum you'd write if you're used to having to say it over and over and over again. Do you just have this saved as a text expander snippet and use it in all your posts?
If it's not going to help me get a job (and increase my exposure to companies that might look at my stats), then why, as a developer, would I play it?

I know you mean well, but I improve my development skills by developing applications.
I'm actually quite unhappy with this obsession with "thinner and lighter" mantra which throws away features at the expense of saving 0.01mm of thickness. These new computers don't have interfaces like Ethernet, DVD player, common interfaces for video. All of these is supposed to be outdated while it is very clearly not. You can't even do trivial upgrades like RAM let alone putting in new bigger SSD. These things are way too expensive to be entirely replaced just because you need 8GB of more RAM.

When you travelling and wireless is painfully slow in places like hotels, wired Ethernet connection is truly a life saver. I hate to carry so many dongles and even worse, they are so easy to lose which can be devastating when traveling. I hate even more carryieng external DVD players because running Netflix is too choppy. When I'm presenting, I hate to carry dongles for VGA, DVI, HDMI etc to connect to projectors. Just few years ago, all of these were built-in to laptops and I used to carry zero dongles. Most people carry laptops in backpack which are often heavier and combined with the weight of all dongles it diminishes any weight reduction done on these devices. So these whole obsession looks pretty stupid to me and detrimental to getting work done for users.
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Are there any performance benchmarks of the Intel Core M (Macbook) vs 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 (MacBook Pro). The new keyboard, new touchpad, new design, improved battery are awesome, but for nearly the same price, you can get a MacBook Pro.
My guess is that somewhere deep in the basement they have an OS that unites iOS and OS X into a single system that will run on future devices. That OS will run both OS X apps in legacy mode and iOS apps. Apple is funding teams for the iOS versions of the apps because that is where they see the future.
Enroll this course about NLP and Deep Learning at Stanford http://cs224d.stanford.edu/
Is it significantly different from topcoder?
Thank you all for your replies which I'll go on an study further. I'm honoured you all took the part of your busy schedule to suggest us what to do.

From all your answers I feel that I might have mistaken the term "investor": we are not sure but we think they are going to ask to create a new-co, rather than investing money and getting shares of the company. They plan to access funds from other investors or grants. Though we are not sure.
In this case they are probably more a "business partner"
I still can't believe we actually had to listen to that every time we wanted to connect to the internet.

The explanation the article gives for why makes sense, but I remember thinking, even back in the day, that it seemed crazy.
...and yet no one died.

Yet.

EDIT: Don't mistake; I'm (conditionally) very pro-nuclear power. But the fallout (pun not intended) from Fukushima is far from over, so to be all, "Welp, dodged that one" is a little disingenuous.
I am a beginner programmer, but I am curious what this is all about so I have signed up. Hopefully I can learn something from this even if I am just am just a fighter but no star.
I get what they're trying to do, but did this read like a rant from a crazy person to anyone else?

Just the first header block read like they were creating some kind of videogame company... and then finally at the bottom of that text block, "Oh, it has something to do with interviews..." and then halfway down the next section, "oh, it's that kind of CTF".

Anyway, seems cool if they can make applying for jobs more interesting.
Wonderful, let me add this to the list of things I need to do in my spare time to remain a hire-able resource .... GitHub, Meetups, reading hacker news, preparing for puzzle interviews, , HackerRank, conquering a CTF. Jeez, can we say dance monkey dance.
No, but I use Windows Phone and hate wearing watches.
This is stunning. Thank you for sharing.
There's a small typo that caught my eye. In the 'Why is the Starfighter the Right Team' section, 4th paragraph, 2nd sentence "I have a folder in Gmail saving messages from geeks who used by career advice or salary negotiation ..." It should be my instead of by.
> If the only reason you'd mess around with Starfighter is to get a job, we've done something wrong

That was just my first impression.

At my age, I kind of know how I stack up: I've met really awesome people like Andrew Tridgell and... I'm not one of them. So I don't feel like I have anything to prove, and I much prefer to hack on open source ( http://journal.dedasys.com/2014/04/27/an-erlang-postgres-dri... ) or side projects where I make and create something rather than playing a game. So I really don't think I'd use it unless I had to as part of a job process. I don't think that's where you're going with it though; it's more of a way to attract interesting people who might otherwise not get noticed, right?

So I'm "not your target market", which is of course natural and to be expected. I think it's a great way to find people who might otherwise slip through the cracks, and have the time and inclination for puzzles.
Many credit-card POS terminals still use dial-up. Ever wonder why they take so long to authenticate?

Moreover, about 3% of Americans still use dial-up as their primary Internet connection.[1]

[1] - http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/08/21/3-of-america...
I have constant crashes/freezes when waking up on Yosemite, and something about having iCloud disabled makes every iLife application show unrelated dialogs (usually "This will overwrite the existing file on iCloud" warnings, despite the file not existing at all, nor having iCloud), the EULA box randomly shows up in System Preferences and gets stuck in an infinite loop of showing me the terms even when I press cancel, yada yada. I agree with the word "shoddy". I can work around all this, but it's like nobody bothered to test it. I'm part of the Appleseed program and send in every bug I find, but apparently they're all minor enough to not be patched. Frustrating.
We'll try to make Starfighter maximally useful for casting as wide a net as possible in the candidate pool, including folks who have demanding career/family/etc situations. I'm an ex-salaryman, believe me, I know the frustration.

That said, the perfect shouldn't be the enemy of the good here. The hiring process as it exists on March 9th 2015 is already insanely hostile to people who don't have scheduling flexibility to invest hundreds of hours to doing speculative work. "Hey, could you fly to a different continent for 3 days to do six rounds of in-person interviews?" is considered an attractive, reasonable proposition.

We can extract more signal than that gauntlet gives, in substantially less time, delivered in the candidate's own space and at their own pace. This is an unambiguous win for candidates with commitments.
True, but since Macs have lost the ports, better venues are finally starting to cater to modern standards.

Personally, I think VGA is an abomination and people should react a bit stronger to be invited to a venue and having to deal with standards from 1987.
What's the difference between memtest86 and memtest86+?

OK, from WP [1]: "Memtest86 was developed by Chris Brady. After Memtest86 remained at v3.0 (2002 release) for two years, the Memtest86+ fork was created by Samuel Demeulemeester to add support for newer CPUs and chipsets. As of November 2013 the latest version of Memtest86+ is 5.01."

And the original has become a commercial program by PassMark. So I think at this point if anyone is talking about memtest86, they're likely referring to the still open-source '+' version.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memtest86
Honestly, they probably don't care. If the company is willing to pay, they'll be willing to send them candidates.

On the other hand, they may want to be a bit more selective to keep great programmers coming to the site.
(a) For the same reasons you'd noodle with any other game

(b) For similar reasons to the ones that make you noodle with a programming language you doubt you'll ever use in production

(c) For the same reason anyone ever did anything with a BeBox

(d) Because for some of the technologies/concepts we work with, our dumb game will be the easiest way to get your hands dirty with them.
Did Apple change from 80% battery life after 1000 cycles?
Very beautiful rendering
I find this announcement fascinatingly incomprehensible; it clearly emerges from a slice of the software universe quite distant from mine. The use of the acronym "CTF" suggests that the authors are very familiar with this genre of game; but how exactly does it work? What does it have to do with programming? I guess they are making programming into a game (?) and this somehow has something to do with hiring?
By her own admission she will then move on to the next learning experience until one day she will realize academia is the only place that true learning happens.

Ummm.... Academics spend a lot of time in non-learning activities. As do students. Learning is a state of mind. You can learn wherever you are if you want.
Thanks. Seems like the class will be available online. Is that the case?
There have been reactors available for a long time that don't use enriched uranium. The CANDU reactor was invented in the 60s and is the only type of reactor in use in Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor
Also know of any classes in Southern Cal by any chance?
The new fragments were publicly discussed for several months at https://newsappho.wordpress.com/ and many scholars harshly criticized the lack of detailed information about the provenance of the papyrus, e.g. https://newsappho.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/discussing-the-tw...
Seems to look for the file "LICENSE". Some people spell it "LICENCE"
On the contrary, it is totally expected. They sell a dongle with VGA out.
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I have a maxxed out XPS 13 and its a love-hate relationship. The screen and build quality is great, the keyboard ok and the touchpad as well. There's very little to match it in that form factor right now

It's noisy as hell though, I can't say that battery life is great and I have some weird problems with music stuttering when I compile, also Visual Studio ocassionally locks up on deploy for some reason.

If I could have a Zenbook with the same screen thought I'd take that any day.
I'll probably grab a sport for development purposes. I don't get the purpose of the Edition version...$10K-$17K for a watch that will be worthless when the next version comes out. They don't seem to understand that high-end watches hold their value over time, and that is why people are willing to pay such outrageous prices for them. It's similar to putting money in a bank.

When the next version comes out, the people wanting to buy an Edition version will just buy a new one.....if you can afford $5K to buy a used watch, you have $10K to buy a new one. Accordingly, old versions will be worthless. Everyone knows that, so the only people that will buy the Edition version will be a few production companies for use in rap videos.
Thank you for your concern. We are aware of that and fully share your perspective. I was just checking with the community if there was a precedent or if it can be common practice.
Also, we might be on the look for an attorney and this could be a good place to start looking
I think the real innovation that would allow this, though, would be defining standards for "thin client" devices (or apps, I guess) that could auto-pair with these wearables.

Yes, good idea, that'd be really nice. When everything has some intelligence in it, the biggest challenge is going to be the disparate devices communicating and doing what they are good at while handing off data and network stuff to a larger device like a phone or computer.

You can sort of see this stuff coming if you squint, but it's quite there yet because of concerns like battery life and weight.
Actually, I guess there's the fact that you're hiring someone who you know is kind of addicted to an online game... and if you don't find anything more interesting for them to do, they'll probably go right back into it.
Entirely insane, yes! After reading this article, I have no real idea what they are doing, but it appears that they are related to an entire genre of games I didn't know about.