skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He said watch enthusiasts, not rich people. By definition these people shouldn't be impressed by something coming with a 1 year warranty (extendable to two years).
They are also interested in the mechanical wizardry happening on the inside, not just in how it looks. Apple watch is pretty much a computer, even if a pretty nifty one by our standards.
Practical testing in Haskell
Why “High-Functioning” Psychopaths Rule the World (2011)
"Honnold does this without apparent fear, as if falling were not possible."

I've seen a few interviews with and about him. That seems to be a universal sentiment.

I'm curious about his amygdalae.

It's clear that he does feel fear, but he has an extraordinary amount of control over its expression.

"Sometimes, I have brief moments of anxiety" he says about being on a sheer cliff face hundreds of feet up with no more than finger tips anchoring him.
Yes it has! It conquered our soda industry and then gave up.
Interesting article but much of it seems off to me. (CTO 120K? is that a fair average for medium to small-sized startups?)

I prefer this guide:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/DBM/M3/2011/Downloads/RHT_2015_salar...
There was a story I heard about a defense contractor who found an obscure bug in code for a submarine system and as he didn't have the time to fix the issue he put his phone number in the error report. He got called more than a decade later by a sub on patrol.
Here’s Why Your Favorite Brands Are Making Their Own Emoticons
Put some water on it.
Interesting that under Swedish law, the statute of limitations keeps ticking even while the suspect is a fugitive. That's not the way it works in the US:

"If the criminal is a fugitive, out of the state in which the crime was committed or otherwise living in hiding, this tolls, or suspends, the statute. (Once the criminal reenters the state the statute resumes running.)"

http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-law-basics/time-limits-...
In Praise of Idleness: Bertrand Russell on the Virtues of Leisure
Georgia Tech had a team in Antarctica recently doing field tests of robots designed to explore under very thick ice sheets, specifically to prepare for a Europa mission.

http://schmidt.eas.gatech.edu/simple/
On the other hand, it uses lots of macro magic and can break at some points. Also the amount of registers is restricted by 32 bit x86.
Future pull and the power of imagination
So for (a), we're going to build tarballs that include the issues, and wikis are already just in a repository.

For (b), that's not a bad idea, but I don't know if we'd talked about that. I'll poke it in our bug tracker. Thanks!
So, in essence, this network can learn to "unproject" images.

Since projection is a lossy operation, a projected image has potentially multiple inverses. And this makes me wonder how this system deals with the situation where two or more inverses exist and are equally likely.
Bored pilot draws penis on FlightRadar
> So, how do search engines find any info?

Desktop integrated search.

> How do you share links to content?

Extensions, contracts and intents.

> How do you support braille readers?

OS Accessibility APIs

> Browser extensions?

Plugins
You probably wouldn't do that well in web development, because it's too different from embedded or systems programming.

You probably have the luxury of specializing in one particular language, and maybe a handful of processor architectures. You probably rely on one or a few libraries, and know them backwards and forwards. You probably have your own personal repository of code and tactics that you go back to often. In other words, your knowledge of programming is probably narrow and deep.

Web developers usually don't get that luxury. Top web developers today have to be fluent in a minimum of two programming languages (javascript and a backend language like Python, Ruby, PHP...), use several different fast prototyping approaches (css compilers and wacky templating systems), have a good working general knowledge of everything from the web browser to the web server, and cope with an environment in which at least one of those parts is changing on almost a daily basis. Web development is shallow and very, very broad.

I prefer systems programming but I've worked as a web developer off and on for several years now. I have a lot of respect for any web developer that's really good at it. They aren't lesser programmers at all, and I suspect a lot of them, if they decided to do it, could kick the pants off of most systems programmers.
> I overpaid US taxes by $10k prior to finding a single piece of paper existed that excuses Americans in Japanese Social Security from US self-employment tax.

I got hit by that too. It's the same (or similar) in Italy: if you are self-employed, you don't have to pay into the Italian equivalent of social security. If you work for a company directly, you do. Most accountants here do not know this, nor do most US accountants.
I don't know what the Swedish limits are, but in Finland the "right the charge a person of a crime" (whatever it would be called in English) will expire in:

- never, if the maximum sentence would be life
- 20 years, if the max is more than 8 years
- 10 years, if the max is 2-8 years
- 5 years, if the max is 1-2 years
- 2 years, if the max is less than 1 year or a fine
- if the crime was a "serious sexual crime
against a child" it will expire at earliest
when the victim turns 28
UK traffic diverted through Ukraine
Rowhammer Explained: fast RAM writes are a vulnerability
This was a pain for me for years when I was a nomad. The US and North Korea are the only two states that tax citizenship instead of residence.

Since US taxes were unescapable, I eventually went for tourist visas, moving every 3 months. The host country does not consider you taxable. I used this in Spain in particular. It worked out fine. I had a spanish lawyer and a spanish accountant, both were of the opinion that it was above board as long as I took longish trips every few months. As long as you're still working remotely and not using social benefits, there's no real legal category for you yet.

There is private health insurance explicitly designed for Americans living abroad. It's dramatically better (and cheaper) than regular american health insurance. Mine, for example, was $1700/year for 100% coverage outside the US and an extra $2900/year for 80% coverage if I wanted it active in the US too.
No, I don't, and no, I'm not.
You are saying one week the numbers are 12 50 23 08 33 the the next week the odds are the same for the same numbers to be drawn?

Because that is very counterintuitive if true.
I think I would be okay with a direct democracy as long as any legislation passed through direct means underwent a judicial review for constitutional issues before someone was directly harmed by said legislation. The current system of requiring locus standi before a law can be challenged is bad enough with representatives who are supposedly more educated on legal matters passing laws of questionable constitutional legality - I could only imagine how much worse it would be with a largely uneducated (on legal matters) population.

What's that saying? Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner or something?
Yes. I don't find "most people do it" to be a convincing excuse for personal flaws.
According to his wikipedia page he retired in 1998. He also worked on a couple of small things that seem to have mostly fallen through.
> Over generations the establishment has learned to game the system so perfectly that the elite will remain in charge no matter what happens. Even new "anti-establishment" parties are quickly absorbed or corrupted.

Is this a bug or a feature?

Consider who the user of this system is, in this instance.
Working at a Startup is like Riding a Bicycle (off a cliff)
The numbers seem correct...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade

"The biggest adults may reach a body length of 1.5 mm (0.059 in), the smallest below 0.1 mm. Newly hatched tardigrades may be smaller than 0.05 mm."
It definitely would now, but back pre-2006..?
Craig was asked for his permission before we posted it. We also posted proper attribution.

I'm curious @jonnyg why are you being so negative?
The difference between Pirate Parties which use liquid democracy and "the Net Party" is that Pirate Parties actually use software to support their political platform. The Net Party has not even something that may look like a political platform, they use politics to sell the software.

And by the way, The Net Party lost the legal status this year.
Copyright in the music industry gets worse
Show HN: Google is shutting down all these, so grab them ASAP
I put some old JavaScript libraries up on Google Code for posterity and research reasons. Some of it is old code, but a nice snapshot of the web in the DHTML era when DOM based Javascript widgets and libraries were all the rage. Take a look before Google Code is sunsetted!

http://code.google.com/p/retrojs-oldskool-js-dhtml/
http://code.google.com/p/webfxwidgets/
http://code.google.com/p/asmscroller/
http://code.google.com/p/js-bezier-functions/
http://code.google.com/p/1kdomlib/
http://code.google.com/p/3dhtml/
http://code.google.com/p/innerdiv/
http://code.google.com/p/assembler-mirror/
http://code.google.com/p/domapi/
http://code.google.com/p/beehive2/
This guy is documenting everything in incredible detail of the development of his engine. He releases sources too, using C++

https://www.youtube.com/user/handmadeheroarchive
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The ranking here is about research output, not quality of teaching.
The average individual is usually 0.3 to 0.5mm, 1.5mm are giants. And though they're described as barrel-shaped, they're not as wide as they're long.

The main problem is they're close to translucent, so bigger individuals can be visible with good vision and the right light, but it's not exactly trivial.
No mention of the condom? Seems like an important bit to me.
Dan Osman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e0yXMa708Y
Michael Denio. A nice guy who had become disillusioned by the game industry and dropped out entirely. Such a pity. Even years after that, I had a short conversation with him by e-mail and he obviously loved his games and was very friendly and gracious to a fan (me).
Mac 128k to Macintosh Plus was a motherboard (+ backside) upgrade.
Putting aside the details of Assange's case for a moment:

> Not that I'm condoning his behaviour, but unless I'm missing a piece of the puzzle that I'm not understanding: Last I checked, anywhere outside of Sweden, having sex with a partner who appeared to be willing (until after the fact) is not rape. If that's the case, how do people not get charged with rape all the time?

That's actually not true at all - there are a number of situations in which a person can be legally incapable of consent. In various jurisdictions this can include someone who is too intoxicated, someone who is under the age of consent, someone who is a ward of the state (e.g. prisoners are legally unable to consent to sex), someone who is emotionally pressured or coerced, etc.

Rape convictions are very hard to secure for a number of reasons (the biggest one being that most victims don't pursue charges[0]), but that shouldn't confuse what is and isn't rape under the law.

> This kind of scenario has played out in countless movies and every university dorm since the beginning of time. Usually it's the guy who gets drunk and tries to escape, but the plot is the same.

Yes, and this is what is often referred to with the statement "rape culture" (which is often misunderstood and dismissed). There are a lot of things that are commonplace in movies that would be considered sexual assault in real life.

[0] Even if you were 100% sure that you could get a conviction, it's an incredibly exhausting, taxing and humiliating process for the victim, so most ultimately choose not to risk their mental health in the process.
Sure, but intimidated isn't fearful of one's life. We all get intimidated in social situations regardless of gender. I'm sure it's worse at dev conferences for women with respect to intimidation, but I don't think it's outside the norm for it to happen to people.
Going slightly away from the topic, which I agree with you entirely on, btw...

This is pure speculation on my part, but I wonder if a lot of the Google devs involved in JS in one way or the other just aren't that used to writing it.

It's this quote that caught my attention

Optimizability dictating language features to this extent is the tail wagging the dog.

Apologies to Java devs if this is uncharacteristic of the community, but a lot of Java devs I know seem to put performance and vm internals ahead of expressiveness.

AngularJS is another project that strikes me as being heavily Java inspired (although it's neither expressive nor performant), almost as if its authors are used to writing desktop applications in Java or C# and just wanted to port their experience to the browser.

It's as though the authors of Gmail or Google Docs are not people developing these other things.
Sure, you want more than Scratch available - though seriously, if the kids just want to do Scratch? They learn that all this stuff is programmable and that they can make a computer do stuff. Do not underestimate the power of that epiphany, however it comes about.
TiVo Receives Approval to Acquire Aereo Assets
this is by design
"It seems like a pretty simple problem" is why the startup community makes more or less zero headway against enterprise problems.
> Would the statute of limitations be tolled for the duration of Assange's stay at the embassy?

IANAL, but that sounds unreasonable: his presence isn't required in order for him to be charged. The statute limits the time in which he can be charged (regardless of his geographic location).

I know for certain under Roman-Dutch law, one can be charged (tried, and sentenced) in absentia. I suspect other justice systems have similar allowances
I run a fairly large forum in my local language. Due to the number of subjects discussed it is not uncommon to reach it by random long-tail searches on google.

On the site there is a "contact us"-link on every page that leads to a normal mailto:myemail@example.com.

Pretty much every day I get emails from (usually elderly) people who wants to know more about the subject discussed, wants their money back due to a complaint against a company mentioned in a thread they found, needs help with logging in to whatever service they think I represent, etc.

I've been facebook, hotmail, banks, all our phone companies, the government, lawyers, a politician, and a lot more.
"I dont get why people keep thinking the UK has a special relationship with the US anymore"

I can't say I am a fan of the "special relationship" (I'm in the UK) - but worth noting that I don't think the US sells Trident missile technology to anyone else? UK warhead designs are probably US based as well although we do manufacture them ourselves.
I do believe that transparency is already changing politics. This is unstoppable - from the FOIA formal rights to lowering the barriers for mass distribution of information with internet to the the miniaturization of microphones and cameras (plus commercial drones). The rulers have never been so much under susveillance.

But what the effects will be is not very clear - surely we'll see a lot of good stuff - but I am afraid that this can lead also to the a kind of 'small village mentality' - where everyone knows everything about everyone - and the social pressure for conformity is enormous.
Ops Best Practices Part 1: Laying the Groundwork for MongoDB High Performance
How about Game Dev Tycoon -> http://www.greenheartgames.com/app/game-dev-tycoon/
Not to mention, those are fun games with interesting and novel game mechanics. My memories of Sierra games more or less involve cheating because many of the puzzles were arbitrary. Oh, you gave the chicken leg to the yeti instead of the eagle? Now find a save game from 5 hours before!

There's a reason Sierra failed - player punishing adventure games fell out of fashion. I play more than a few adventure and point and click games on Steam and rarely are the puzzles Sierra-like frustrating. That formula just doesn't work and only worked because of the lack of competition in the 80s. The early 1990s brought us stuff like Doom, Civilization, Myst, etc and killed the adventure game market. Heck, The Longest Journey and its sequels, pretty much brought back the Sierra-style game and sold a lot of copies. Compare it to what Sierra was doing. TLJ is pretty much fine art compared to the schlock-fest and hammy writing of the Sierra crew.

> I realized, anyway, by the mid-'90s that people weren't looking for deeper games with deeper puzzles and thought-provoking concepts and all these things we were hoping for.

Talk about paying yourself a compliment! Are we really saying Half-Life's or Chrono-Trigger's storytelling is more shallow than the milquetoast stories of the Sierra universe? Come on.

There's also an argument here that games shouldn't be "do some work to get to the next part of the story" visual novels. There's balance between story and game. Some lean more one way than another. There's nothing wrong with either approach. I think modern gamers lean towards a more cinematic story-telling experience, which is a questionable fad. If anything, games are too story-based right now.

That said, I feel a little sorry for Al. He and his people were on top of the gaming world in the 1980s and are now deep into irrelevancy. The sad part is, if he took on a more mature attitude like, "Hey, we had a lot of fun, but the industry changed quickly and we didn't, and we got squashed," a bit like Nolan Bushnell did about Atari, I'd have some respect for him. But playing the endless blame game (gamers suck, management sucks, but the creatives are oh-so perfect) just makes him look a primadonna.
8bit music from one-line C programs
too bad it's not waterproof for the billionaires
Notes from a job hunter
I've been doing contracting for about ten years now, and here's what I've been seeing. This isn't about the good recruiters, or the bad recruiters. It's about the normal, everyday recruiters.

- Recruiters aren't looking for the best match, or even a good match. They are looking for the easiest match.

- Recruiters try to be negotiators, but have little authority to negotiate.

- What authority recruiters have is limited to their company. The hiring company doesn't save money, the worker doesn't make more money, it just goes to the middleman.

I don't even mean this against any individual recruiter. For the most part, they just seem to be doing the job the way they were taught to do it. I also get that the companies are just reacting to what employers say they want.

There's just too many conflicts of interest. These days, my initial contact with my "employer" is adversarial. I treat them just as I would a used car salesman. Is that a good way to start a relationship?
How one perfume company misled scientists into believing in human sex pheromones
I think they come up in one of Cosmos episodes. Actually very interesting to see how they go around almost everywhere.

Edit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I-PQxuPkjA
Is this legitimately a bug, though? It could be tagged as a performance defect, but there is code like this through projects across the land.

I think the reason this rubs some people the wrong way is that implementations like this can be the result of the "no premature optimizations!" philosophy and its advocacy. I've encountered this firsthand at a number of organizations, and it apparently was somewhat endemic in the Ruby space.

Make something that works, and benchmark later to find that one magical hog that you can quickly change and then everything is optimal. Only it almost always ends up being a performance death by a thousand (million) cuts, performance and resource malaise so endemic that fixing it almost seems impossible.
There is a balance.

I used to work in the animation industry. Mostly at John K's studio Spümcø. I had a ringside seat for the debacle that was "Ren & Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon". All of the things I'd heard about on the original production of Ren and Stimpy played out before my eyes. Basically I got to see what happens when the whole production is run by an obsessive perfectionist who has nobody who can say "no, we can't afford to do this".

And if you look at a ton of the animation out there, you can see the other side of this: studios run by people who only see the bottom line, who focus group the life out of everything halfway interesting and only ever deliver generic content.

But when you get enough people in management who actually care about making good work, something can start to happen. Fred Seibert, for instance - he ran the "What A Cartoon!" incubator series at Cartoon Network, "Oh yeah! Cartoons" at Nickelodeon, and now runs a Youtube channel called Frederator. Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Lab, and Adventure Time all came out of these various incubators. He's built space after space to find talented young cartoonists and give them more enough rope to hang themselves. Or to make something amazing.

You don't just need professional management. You need management who gives a fuck about making good stuff, and can negotiate with the obsessed lunatics who actually make the things when they start to get overambitious. You need management that is willing to make space to experiment and take risks with small projects.

There seem to be pockets of this in video games right now. Sony's been funding a lot of little weird things; Microsoft's had its hands in a few too. But then there are also titans like EA who buy up quirky Popcaps and turn all their gorgeous, laid-back games into IAP orgies.
When the US Marines come rescue me from my house in the south of France, I'll write them a check for the evacuation. Until then they can f'off. My American passport doesn't give me any advantages overseas, in fact, it gives me far less advantages than a Swiss passport would.

I pay more for visas (thanks to visa reciprocity agreements,) I have more difficulty opening bank accounts (assuming I can even open one at all,) AND I have to file taxes based on citizenship and not residency. The US is one of the few countries in the world that have citizenship-based taxation. FATCA is also an egregious breach of privacy. The US strong-arming countries into reporting on ALL bank accounts held by Americans. The person only has to declare them if the balance exceeds $10,000 at any point during the year, however the banks are still obligated to report them. My little boy who was born in France, but he's an American citizen by birth, has never been to the US and yet even his little bank account (opened by the bank with 40 Euro as a gift,) gets reported to the US government. He's six months old and already in an IRS database. If he made phone calls or used Facebook, he'd likely be in an NSA database as well.

To get slightly political here, if ISIS were to kidnap me, I'd be dead. Four French journalists -- Nicolas Henin, Pierre Torres, Edouard Elias and Didier François, who were kidnapped in Syria last year by ISIS -- were released in April.

One of those hostages, Henin, had been held by ISIS alongside James Foley. Henin is free, and Foley is dead. The only difference between the two: their passports.

Don't get me wrong, the US is my country. I fought for the US as an army officer (2003-2007). However, patriotism is more than waving the flag, it's calling out the nonsense when necessary.
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Question: If you never plan to go back, does it matter? Could they come after a citizen living in Canada for owing the US back taxes?